SS Tiger (1917)
History
United States
Name Tiger
Owner
Operator
Standard Transportation Company (1920–1931)
Standard-Vacuum Transportation Company (1931–1935)
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1935–1942)
Builder Union Iron Works , San Francisco
Yard number 137
Launched 21 April 1917
Completed June 1917
Homeport New York
Identification
Fate Sank 2 April 1942
General characteristics
Type Tanker
Tonnage
Length 410 ft 0 in (124.97 m)
Beam 56 ft 0 in (17.07 m)
Depth 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m)
Installed power 594 Nhp , 3,200 ihp
Propulsion Union Iron Works 3-cylinder triple expansion
Speed 10+ 1 ⁄2 knots (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h)
SS Tiger was a tanker that was torpedoed on 1 April 1942 off the coast of Virginia during World War II .
Tiger was an American Socony-Vacuum Oil Company tanker completed in 1917 at San Francisco , California . Tiger was carrying 64,321 barrels (~8,775 t) of Navy fuel oil when the German submarine U-754 torpedoed her on 1 April 1942. The torpedo hit Tiger on her starboard side aft of amidships tank #5 and one crewman lost his life. She was taken in tow and sank on 2 April in 55 feet (17 m) of water in the Atlantic Ocean , 8.2 miles (13.2 km) east of Sandbridge Beach , Virginia . She lies on her starboard side, quite broken up, at a depth of 58 feet (18 m).[1]
References
^ Freitag, Norbert. Shipwrecks Unforgotten .
36°45′54″N 75°46′17″W / 36.76500°N 75.77139°W / 36.76500; -75.77139
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in April 1942
Shipwrecks
1 Apr: Giovanni delle Bande Nere , HMS P36 , HMS Pandora , Skytteren , Storsten
2 Apr: David H. Atwater , Tiger
3 Apr: Shaumyan
5 Apr: HMS Abingdon , SS Catahoula , HMS Cornwall , HMS Dorsetshire , Empire Beacon , HMS Hector , HMS Tenedos
6 Apr: HMS Havock , HMIS Indus
7 Apr: Lancing
8 Apr: USS Dewey , Byron D. Benson , Shch-421 , HMT Svana
9 Apr: Q-112 Apra , HMS Hermes , HMS Hollyhock , HMS Lance , Q-111 Luzon , USS Napa , Sagaing , HMAS Vampire
10 Apr: USS Canopus
11 Apr: Empire Cowper , USS Finch , HMS Kingston
13 Apr: El Occidente , Empire Amethyst
14 Apr: Benwood , Margaret , U-85 , U-252 , HMS Upholder
20 Apr: Empire Dryden
22 Apr: San Jacinto , , SS Connecticut
23 Apr: Lammot Du Pont
24 Apr: Empire Drum
26 Apr: USS Sturtevant
29 Apr: HMS Urge
30 Apr: Ashkhabad
Unknown date: U-702
Other incidents