Tartar (1781 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Tartar (ship).

History
Great Britain
NameTartar
Launched1779, France[1]
RenamedFriends (1782)
Captured1782, and recaptured
FateLast listed 1793
General characteristics
Tons burthen60,[1] or 80[2] (bm)
Sail planSchooner
Complement50 (1781)
Armament14 × 6-pounder guns + 4 swivel guns (1781)

Tartar was built in France in 1779, probably under another name, and taken in prize. She was in 1781 briefly a Bristol-based privateer. A French privateer captured her, but a British privateer recaptured her. She then became the merchantman Friends, and traded between Bristol and North America, primarily Newfoundland. Friends was last listed in 1793.

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