HMAS Tambar was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.

She was sold in 1919 to the British New Guinea Development Company, in 1928 to the Tasmanian Government and later to Holyman & Sons.

[2] Tambar was requisitioned by the RAN and commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper.

[3] Two crew were killed outright and another later died of his wounds.

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