HMAS Tambar

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

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
Tonnage	456 gross register 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

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]

Fate

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