HMAS Tambar

History

Australia
Name:	Tambar
Owner:	North Coast Steam Navigation Company (1912-1919)
Builder:	Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Grangemouth
Launched:	1912
Identification:	UK Official Number: 131522
Fate:	Broken up in 1960
History
Australia
Name:	Tambar
General characteristics
Displacement:	456 gross tons
Length:	145.2 ft (44.3 m)^[1]
Beam:	30.1 ft (9.2 m)
Draught:	8.7 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	Twin screw triple expansion steam engine

HMAS Tambar was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during World War II.

Service history

Built in 1912 by the Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Grangemouth for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. She was sold in 1919 to the British New Guinea Development Company, in 1928 to the Tasmanian Government and later to Holyman & Sons.^[2] Tambar was requisitioned by the RAN and commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper. On 4 March 1942, HMAS Tambar was fired on and hit by the Examination Battery at Fort Cowan Cowan, Moreton Island.^[3] Two crew were killed outright and another later died of his wounds. She was returned to her owners in 1946.^[2]

Tambar was scrapped in Melbourne in 1960.^[2]

↑ "Llyods Register 1943-1944" (PDF). Plimsoll ShipData. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
1 2 3 "North Coast Steam Navigation Company". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
↑ Dunn, Peter. "HMAS TAMBAR HIT BY "FRIENDLY FIRE" FROM COWAN COWAN, MORETON ISLAND ON 4 MARCH 1942". www.ozatwar.com. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in March 1942
Shipwrecks	1 Mar: USS Edsall, HMS Encounter, HNLMS Evertsen, HMS Exeter, USS Houston, USS Pecos, HMAS Perth, USS Pope, Rooseboom, U-656 2 Mar: HNLMS Banckert, USAT Don Esteban, Ha-13, HNLMS K X, HNLMS K XIII, HNLMS K XVIII, HNLMS Koning der Nederlanden, USS Pillsbury, USS Stewart, Toendjoek, HNLMS Witte de With 3 Mar: USS Asheville, Koolama, USS Perch 4 Mar: HMAS Yarra 6 Mar: HNLMS Pieter de Bitter 7 Mar: Arabutan 8 Mar: HNLMS Eland Dubois, HNLMS Jan van Amstel 10 Mar: Lady Nelson, Kongō Maru, Tenyo Maru, Yokohama Maru 11 Mar: HMS Naiad 12 Mar: Texan 13 Mar: Tama Maru No. 2 14 Mar: U-133 15 Mar: U-503, HMS Vortigern 17 Mar: Île de Batz, San Demetrio 18 Mar: E.M. Clark 19 Mar: Papoose 20 Mar: HMS Heythrop 21 Mar: Vamar 23 Mar: British Prudence 24 Mar: HMS Southwold, U-655 26 Mar: HMS Jaguar, HMS Legion, HMS P39 27 Mar: USS Atik, U-587 28 Mar: HMS Campbeltown, Raceland 29 Mar: Hertford, Z26 30 Mar: U-585
Other incidents	2 Mar: Ruth Kellogg, HMS Walney 4 Mar: HMAS Tambar 5 Mar: Takao Maru 10 Mar: China Maru, Tama Maru No. 2 11 Mar: Komintern 15 Mar: Olean 16 Mar: Irish Willow, U-753 22 Mar: Kingston 25 Mar: Imperial Transport
1941 1942 1943 February 1942 April 1942

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