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.