HMS Tamar (1758)

HMS Tamar or Tamer was a 16-gun Favourite-class sloop-of-war of the Royal Navy.

Edward Thornborough, with ship's name spelled Tamer.

[2] The warship hosted South Carolina's royal governor, Lord William Campbell, beginning in September 1775, when increasingly-violent patriot activity drove the governor from his home on the mainland.

[3] She was renamed HMS Pluto when she was converted into a fire ship in 1777.

The French privateer Duc de Chartres captured her on 30 November 1780.

This plan specifically illustrates the jury rudder made on the return voyage to Britain after she lost her rudder through electrolysis between the copper sheathing and the iron rudder pintles
Converted into a fire ship and renamed Pluto in 1777