List of ships named Tiger
Numerous ships have been named Tiger after the tiger:
- HMS Tiger - one of 15 vessels of the British Royal Navy by that name
- SMS Tiger (1887), a torpedo ram cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- SS Tiger (1917) was a tanker that was torpedoed on 1 April 1942 off the coast of Virginia during World War II
- German torpedo boat Tiger (1928), a Type 24 torpedo boat launched in 1928 and sunk in a collision in 1939
- German torpedo boat Tiger (1940), the Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Tor captured by Germany in 1940 and renamed Tiger
Commercial
- Tiger (1773 ship) was launched at Maryland. She was lengthened in 1779. Between 1785 and 1788 she was a whaler in the Southern Whale Fishery. She was last listed in 1795.
- Tiger (1800 ship) was launched at Liverpool. She made one voyage as a slave ship (1806-7), and was wrecked in 1819.
- Tiger, of 189 tons (bm), was launched in Scotland in 1800. She was lost in 1816 near Pernambuco, Brazil. She was on a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro.[1] Agreeable took her cargo into Rio de Janeiro.
- Tiger (1813 ship), of 32768⁄94 tons (bm), was built in America and captured by the British, probably by HMS Medusa. Tiger was condemned in prize on 4 May 1813. She is last listed in 1833.
- Tiger, of 375 tons (bm), was launched in 1835 or 1836. She was wrecked on 12 August 1836 on
See also
- French ship Tigre - ships of the French Navy by that name
- Tiger-class cruiser, the last cruiser class of the Royal Navy
- Tiger-class fast attack craft, a post-World War II class of Bundesmarine (German Federal Navy) fast attack craft
Citations & references
- ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (5063). 5 April 1816.
- ^ Stirling, William (1843). Narrative of the Wreck of the Ship Tiger, of Liverpool ... on the desert island of Astova, etc. W. Roberts.
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