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Tartar, 1801
Type: 5th rate ; frigate ; Armament 32 (26 x long 18- pounders on the main deck: 10 x 32 pounder carronades: 4 x long nines)
Launched : 1801 ;
Disposal date or year : 18 Aug 1811
Disposal Details : Wrecked on a sand in the Baltic crew saved. Captain Joseph Baker
BM: 895 tons
Complement: 254
Notes:
24 Jul - 2 Sep 1803 chase and capture of the French 74 Duquesne, and the escape of the Duguay-Trouin, 74 and the 40-gun frigate Guerrière.
9 Mar 1804 captured the French privateer Jeune Henri.
31 Jul 1804 ship's boats capture the French privateer schooner Hirondelle.
May 1805 Jamaica Station.
10-20 May 1808 sailed from Leith roads, to cruise off North Bergen in search of the Dutch frigate Guelderland and her convoy.
late May - Oct 1808 in the Baltic with a fleet under V.-adm Sir J Saumarez.
3 Nov 1808 captured the Danish privateer Naargske Gutten, 7 guns 36 men, on the Home station.
15 May 1809 chased a Danish privateer on shore at Felixberg, following which the ship's boats were despatched to board the vessel and bring her off, which was achieved despite the fact that the vessel was booby-trapped by her former crew.
Yarmouth 21 Jan 1810 Sailed for the coast of Holland.
Portsmouth 20 Jan 1811 Sailed on a cruise.
Plymouth 2 Mar 1811 Sailed with a convoy for the Downs.
Yarmouth 20 Mar 1811 Sailed to cruise in the Baltic.
27 Mar 1811 Tartar and Sheldrake assist at the defence of the island of Anholt in the Cattegat from an attack by the Danish.
Edinburgh 4 Nov 1811 A Russian galliot, prize, which had been carried up the river and laid on the beach, drifted out to sea and was dashed to pieces on the Ness.
Lerwick 5 Nov 1811 The Snake saved men from a prize sent in by the Tartar.