HMS Tartar (1801)

Tartar
History
United Kingdom
Name	Tartar
Builder	Brindley, Frindsbury
Launched	27 June 1801
Commissioned	July 1801
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Anholt 27 March 1811"[1]
Fate	Beached 21 August 1811 Later burned
General characteristics [2]
Class and type	Narcissus-class fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	894 64⁄94 bm
Length	142 ft 0 in (43.3 m) (overall) 118 ft 3+1⁄2 in (36.1 m) (keel)
Beam	37 ft 8+1⁄2 in (11.5 m)
Draught	9 ft 9 in (3.0 m) (unladen) 13 ft 3 in (4.0 m) (laden)
Depth of hold	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	26 × 18-pounder guns 6 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Tartar was a 32-gun fifth-rate Narcissus-class frigate of the Royal Navy, built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltic Sea before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811.