HMS Tamar (1814)

HMS Tamar was a warship of the British Royal Navy of the sixth grade , built in 1814 in Spithead , southern England. The HMS Tamar was equipped with 26 cannons. In 1820 she sailed towards the Caribbean, where she stayed for some time as a patrol ship and operated from Jamaica . In 1823 she destroyed three pirate ships there.

In 1824 HMS Tamar took part in an expedition to the Australian north coast together with HMS Lady Nelson , where, among other things, the settlement of Fort Dundas was founded on Melville Island .

After returning to England, the ship was decommissioned in 1831.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Naval Database , Tamar, 1814, online at: pbenyon.plus.com / ...
↑ Timeline , chronological overview of the history of HMS Lady Nelson, online at: ladynelson.org.au/.../timeline
↑ "THE NEWLY FORMED BRITISH SETTLEMENT ON THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIAN", in: The Australian (New South Wales, Australia), March 10 1825 3. (National Library of Australia), online at: trove.nla. gov.au / ...
↑ Ida Lee: The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson , Library of Alexandria, especially Chapter 13: THE LADY NELSON ACCOMPANIES HMS TAMAR TO MELVILLE ISLAND , online at: books.google.de / ...

[pbenyon-1] Naval Database , Tamar, 1814, online at: pbenyon.plus.com / ...

[timeline-2] Timeline , chronological overview of the history of HMS Lady Nelson, online at: ladynelson.org.au/.../timeline

[nla-3] "THE NEWLY FORMED BRITISH SETTLEMENT ON THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIAN", in: The Australian (New South Wales, Australia), March 10 1825 3. (National Library of Australia), online at: trove.nla. gov.au / ...

[books-4] Ida Lee: The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson , Library of Alexandria, especially Chapter 13: THE LADY NELSON ACCOMPANIES HMS TAMAR TO MELVILLE ISLAND , online at: books.google.de / ...