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HMS Tartar (F133)
Career (United Kingdom) Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom
Name: HMS Tartar (F133)
Operator: Royal Navy
Builder: Devonport Dockyard
Laid down: 22 October 1959
Launched: 19 September 1960
Commissioned: 26 February 1962
Decommissioned: 29 March 1984
Motto: Without Fear
Fate: Sold to Indonesia, 1984
Career (Indonesia) Flag of Indonesia
Name: KRI Hasanuddin (333)
Operator: Indonesian Navy
Acquired: 1984
General characteristics
Class & type: Tribal-class frigate
Service record
Operations: Third Cod War
HMS Tartar

HMS Tartar in Portsmouth. July 1977.

HMS Tartar (F133) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Tartar people, most of whom were located in Asia and Eastern Europe. She was sold to Indonesia in 1984.

Tartar was built by Devonport Dockyard,[1] at a cost of £4,140,000.[2] She was launched on 19 September 1960 and commissioned on 26 February 1962.[1]

Royal Navy Service[]

While in the West Indies in 1963, Tartar provided support to Trinidad after Hurricane Flora struck the Caribbean.[3][4] In early December, Tartar's crew apprehended nine armed Cuban on board a ship off Cay Sal, Bahamas, where an arms cache was discovered by a ship's party.[5]

Tartar recommissioned on 12 January 1967 and attended Portsmouth Navy Days later that year.[6] The frigate arrived in the Persian Gulf in 1968.[citation needed]

In 1975, Tartar undertook fishery protection duties in the Barents Sea.[citation needed] She supported operations during the Third Cod War with Iceland. During the dispute, Tartar was rammed by the patrol vessel Týr on 1 April,[7] and by the Ægir in May.[8] Later that year, in the West Indies, Tartar searched for and located the wreckage of Cubana Flight 455.[citation needed]. She was present at the Spithead Fleet Review in 1977, held in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee. At this time she was part of the 1st Frigate Squadron[9]

Tartar was reduced to reserve in 1980, being placed in the Standby Squadron.[10] She was taken out of reserve during the Falklands War and restored for active service.[11] The frigate did not deploy to the South Atlantic, however, instead operating in home waters in the absence of other warships.[citation needed] She did deploy to the West Indies as guardship in 1982/1983 for 3 months, spending Christmas and new Year in St Petersburg Florida.[citation needed] In June 1983, Tartar's Westland Wasp helicopter evacuated the six-man crew of the supply ship Spearfish, which had collided with an oil rig in the English Channel. As a potential hazard to navigation, Spearfish had to be sunk by the guns of Tartar.[12]

Indonesian Navy Service[]

Tartar was decommissioned in 1984 and sold to Indonesia as the Hasanuddin,[13] so named after a sultan who fought the Dutch. The frigate has since been decommissioned. Her name was given to a Dutch-built Sigma class corvette.[citation needed]

Commanding Officers[]

From To Captain
1967 1967 Commander J R C Johnston RN
1969 1971 Commander Cameron Rusby RN
1977 1977 Commander M A C Moore RN
1977 1979 Lieutenant Commander J R Stanford RN

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gardiner, Robert & Chesneau, Roger (1995), p. 518.
  2. "A-Submarine Cost Revised". The Times (56304): Col F, p 8. 24 April 1965.
  3. "Hurricane Kills More Than 400". The Times (55825): Col F, p 10. 7 October 1963.
  4. "Tobago Prepares To Rebuild". The Times (55827): Col B, p 10. 9 October 1963.
  5. "British Patrol Arrests Nine Cubans". The Times (55873): Col E, p 10. 2 December 1963.
  6. Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 26–28 August 1967, HMSO, p17.
  7. "Rammings damage cod war frigates". The Times (59670): Col A, p. 4. 3 April 1976.
  8. "Mr Crosland stands by for cod war message". The Times (59714): Col D, p. 4. 27 May 1976.
  9. Winton, John (July 1977) "Spithead – 28 June 1977". The Naval Review: Vol. 65, No. 3, p. 203.
  10. Hansard (26 April 1982), hansard.millbanksystems.com. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  11. Hansard (27 May 1982), hansard.millbanksystems.com. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  12. "Ship's crew saved after oil rig collision". The Times (61572): Col D, p. 1. 30 June 1983.
  13. Colledge, J. J. & Warlow, Ben (2010), p. 397

Publications[]

  • Colledge, J. J. & Warlow, Ben (2010) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (4th Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1.
  • Gardiner, Robert & Chesneau, Roger (1995), Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1947–1995, Conway Maritime Press, London, ISBN 978-0-8517-7605-7.
  • Marriot, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983, Ian Allen Ltd. ISBN 07110 1322 5


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