HMS Tartar was a wooden screw corvette of the Royal Navy.

Originally built for the Russian Empire, she was seized by British forces on 5 April 1854, shortly before her launch.

From 1854 to 1859, Tartar was in active service throughout the Crimean War, and served on the North America and West Indies Station.

[6] In 1860 she sailed from Sheerness Dockyard under Captain John Montagu Hayes for service in the Pacific, primarily in Japan.

After the Shimonoseki conflict, the ship remained at Sheerness before being sold to Castle shipbreakers and being broken up at Charlton.