Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. HMS Tartar was a fifth-rate 32-gun frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at Frindsbury and launched in 1801. She captured privateers on the Jamaica station and fought in the Gunboat War and elsewhere in the Baltics before being lost to grounding off Estonia in 1811. Captain James Walker commissioned Tartar in July 1801 and sailed for Jamaica in October. In June 1802 Captain Charles Inglis took command and in 1803 Captain John Perkins succeeded him. Between 20 November and 4 December 1803 Tartar was in company with Captain Loring''s squadron when the squadron captured the French ships of war Le Decouverte, La Clorinde, La Surveillante, La Vertu, and Le Cerf.