British Tar (ship)

Several ships have been named British Tar an alternative nickname for British sailors to Jack Tar:


 * British Tar was launched at Shields and made five voyages as a whaler and several as a West Indiaman. She then became a general trader. She was lost on 29 January 1818.
 * British Tar was built in Plymouth (probably Plymouth, Massachusetts). She sailed from Bristol in 1805 on a slave trading voyage during which the French captured her. She became the privateer Revanche, out of Guadeloupe. Revanche fought an inconclusive single-ship action in 1806 with HMS Curieux (1804). The British captured Revanche in 1808.
 * British Tar was built by Lockwood Brodrick (Late), at South Shields. She was last listed in 1811.
 * British Tar was launched in 1793 in Spain under another name and taken in prize. In 1806 she was on a voyage from Labrador to the Mediterranean when a French squadron captured and burnt her.
 * British Tar was launched at Whitby in 1814. She became a Liverpool-based merchantman, trading across the Atlantic with North America until she was wrecked in August 1840.
 * British Tar, of 383–395 tons (bm), was a brig launched at Sunderland. In 1834 she made a voyage carrying immigrants to Canada under the Petworth Emigration Scheme. She was last listed in 1863.