HMS Tartar (1814)
HMS Tartar (1814)


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NameTartar (1814)Explanation
TypeFifth rate   
Launched6 April 1814
HullWooden
PropulsionSail
Builders measure949 tons
Displacement 
Guns38
Fate1859
ClassApollo
Ships book
Note1830 r.s.
Snippets concerning this vessels career
DateEvent
(January 1840)Receiving ship at Chatham
Extracts from the Times newspaper
DateExtract
Ma 30 October 1848

CHATHAM, Oct. 28.

The Rosamond steam-sloop, 4 guns, Commander John Foote, arrived hero last evening, and will be paid off next week.
The Daphne, 18 guns, fitting for sea, was commissioned yesterday by Captain Edward G. Fanshawe, and this morning the captain left for Sheerness and had an interview with the Port Admiral. The Tartar hulk is taken up for the use of the officers and the crew until the Daphne is fit to receive them.
The Vernon, 50 guns, Captain John C. Fitzgerald, arrived at Sheerness yesterday afternoon from the East Indies, where she has been stationed as a flag-ship. She is expected here by thia day's tide to be paid off.


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