British Tar (1804 ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name	British Tar
Owner	1804:Lockyer[1] 1806:Pinson & Co.
Builder	Spain,[2] or America[3]
Launched	1793[2]
Acquired	By purchase of a prize
Fate	Captured and burned January 1806
General characteristics
Tons burthen	162,[3] or 167,[2] (bm)
Armament	2 × 4-pounder guns[2]

British Tar was probably launched in Spain, though possibly in the United States, in 1793. She appears to have come into British hands as a prize in 1802, but she does not appear in the British registers until 1804. In January 1806 British Tar, W. White, master, Pinson & Co., owner, was on a voyage from Labrador in British North America to a Mediterranean port during the War of the Third Coalition when a French Navy squadron captured and burned her in the Mediterranean Sea.^[4]