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 : 27 Jun 1801, by Mr Brindley at Finsbury, opposite Rochester ;
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:

27 Jun 1801 Capt D. Walker in command.

19 Jul 1801 arrived Sheerness, the Tartar, Capt Walker, from Chatham.

25 Jul 1801 is to be paid today, following which she will depart for the Downs. Payment was usually made at the Nore. A strong easterly gale here at Sheerness yesterday, which has moderated today at N.W.

28 Jul 1801 departed the Downs with the outward bound convoy for Portsmouth. Wind ENE, blows, with rain.

30 Jul 1801 arrived Spithead with convoy from the Downs.

Circa Aug 1801 Mr. John Cock, late of the Prevoyante, to be Purser of the Tartar.

1 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead the American schooner Sophia, Driscoll, from Baltimore to Havre de Grace, sent in by the Tartar, Capt Walter, about 8 leagues from Cape le Havre.

2 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead and came into harbour the Hambro' ship Leander, detained by the Tartar, Capt Walker.

11 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead the Danish ship Neptunus, Stephens, from Dram, in Norway, detained off Havre by the Tartar.

13 Sep 1801 sent into the Downs the American ship Sophia, Isaac Hands, Master, from New York, bund to Havre de Grace, laden with chocolate and bale goods ; but the wind blowing a gale he bore away for Ramsgate Pier, where he remains.

16 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead the galliot Johanna and Elizabeth, from France with butter, detained by the Tartar.

28 Sep 1801 arrived Spithead the Tartar, from off Havre.

5 Oct 1801 departed Spithead the Tartar, for Cork, to take the trade from thence to Jamaica.

19 Oct 1801 departed Cork with a convoy for the West Indies.

14 Mar 1802 in Hamoaze.

17 Oct 1802 the packet Lady Arabella, Porteus, arrived Falmouth from Jamaica, after a passage of 41 days, and reports that the Flag Ship Leviathan remained at Port Royal when she departed. The Theseus had departed Port Royal on the 17 Aug., the same day as the Aeolus, arrived from England. The Tartar also arrived at Port Royal on the 17 Aug, and departed on the 26 Aug., in company with the frigates Desiree and Trent.

14 May 1803 letters are received at Plymouth, reporting the arrival of the Hercule, Capt Ferris, at Guadaloupe on 5 Apr, from Plymouth, and expects to depart shortly for Jamaica. The letters also advise that the Blenheim has recently been ashore and had to throw 18 guns overboard to get off, and has gone to Martinique. The Elephant, Vanguard, and Bellerophon, 74s, and the frigate Desiree, were reported to be at Jamaica. The Goliath, Cumberland and Theseus were on a cruise, as were the Tartar, Shark and Echo, off the North of Jamaica, and the Calypso off Cape Tiberon.

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 Guerri�re.

9 Mar 1804 captured the French privateer Jeune Henri.

11 Mar 1804 the Elephant, Theseus, Hercule, and Desiree, were at Port Royal Jamaica ; the Bellerophon and Vanguard, with the Tartar and Eolus, were off the West end of St Domingo ; the Port Mahon, and Papillon brigs, off Port Morant ; the Hunter and Mignonne, off Montego Bay ; and the Flying Fish, and Gipsey, were off the coast of Cuba ; the Fairy had sailed for Honduras, and the Camel for Halifax.

31 Jul 1804 ship's boats capture the French privateer schooner Hirondelle.

Dec 1804 the Patriotic Fund at Lloyds awarded a sword each to Lieuts Mullah and Lockyer for their gallantry in cutting out the French privateer Hirondelle ; and a seamen and a marine who were wounded on the occasion received �20 each.

May 1805 Jamaica Station.

10-20 May 1808 departed 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 departed for the coast of Holland.

21 Jul 1810 with the homeward-bound Baltic convoy, of about 200 sail, off Rob's Snout, under the protection of the Lynx, Clio, Snake, Rosario, Gluckstadt, and Centinel, with the Tartar, Rose, and Primrose following at some distance astern, [presumably with a view to preventing enemy gun boats sneaking up from astern, and picking off the slower vessels in the convoy.]

Portsmouth 20 Jan 1811 departed on a cruise.

Plymouth 2 Mar 1811 departed with a convoy for the Downs.

Yarmouth 20 Mar 1811 departed 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.