HMS Tamar (shore station)
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HMS Tamar was the name for the British Royal Navy's base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997. It took its name from HMS Tamar, a ship that was used as the base until replaced by buildings ashore.
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Naval Dockyard buildings (centre), Queen's Road, 1894
HMS Tamar (white vessel) anchored off the Naval Dockyard (1905)
The Prince of Wales Building, the main headquarters building of HMS Tamar from 1978 to 1997
HMS Tamar (1863)
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HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship from 1897 to 1941, and gave her name to the shore station HMS Tamar in Hong Kong.
HMS Tamar at Malta, 1882
HMS Tamar (white vessel) anchored off the Naval Dockyard (1905)
The purported anchor of HMS Tamar, located at the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence