HMS Tigris

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Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Tigris, after the river Tigris, in modern-day Iraq. Another was planned but never completed:

  • was a 36-gun fifth rate. She was built as HMS Forth but was renamed in 1812, before being launched in 1813. She was sold for breaking up in 1818.
  • HMS Tigris was to have been a 46-gun fifth rate. She was laid down in 1822 but was cancelled in 1832.
  • was a paddle vessel launched in 1882 and sold into civilian service in 1904, being renamed Amarapoora.
  • HMS Tigris (N63) was a T-class submarine launched in 1939 and sunk by an unknown cause in 1943.

See also[]

  • , a brig of 258 tons (bm) and 10 guns, was built at the Bombay Dockyard for the EIC's naval arm.[1] (One source misnames her as Tigress.[2]) The Indian Navy sold her in 1862.[3]
  • , of 109 tons (bm), built by Laird & Co.,[4] was a flat-bottomed, iron, paddle steamer of 26HP.[5] She was disassembled, shipped to the Bay of Antioch, carried overland, and reassembled in 1835 on the Lake of Antioch for the English Euphrates expedition, together with .[5] She was wrecked at Anah on 21 May 1836. (Euphrates completed the descent.)
  • Tigris (ship), a number of ships

References[]

  1. ^ Wadia (1986), p. 343.
  2. ^ Phipps (1840), p. 158.
  3. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 333.
  4. ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 134.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Gibson-Hill (1954), p. 133, Fn#4.


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