HMS Tartarus
Introduction Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name '''HMS ''Tartarus''''', after Tartarus, from Greek mythology. A fourth was laid down, but never completed:*  was an 8-gun bomb vessel, launched in 1792 at Newcastle as the mercantile ''Charles Dawson''. The Navy purchased her in 1797.She was wrecked in 1804. *  was a 16-gun fireship launched in 1806.She was reclassified as a sloop from 1808 and was sold in 1816. *  was a  paddle gunvessel launched in 1834 and broken up in 1860. * HMS ''Tartarus'' was to have been a  wooden screw gunvessel, laid down in 1860 and cancelled in 1864.
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