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:

  • HMS Tigris (1813) 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.
  • HMS Tigris (1882) 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

  • HCS Tigris (1829), 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]
  • PS Tigris (1836), 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 PS Euphrates (1836).[5] She was wrecked at Anah on 21 May 1836. (Euphrates completed the descent.)
  • Tigris (ship), a number of ships

Citations

  1. ↑ Wadia (1986), p. 343.
  2. ↑ Phipps (1840), p. 158.
  3. ↑ Hackman (2001), p. 333.
  4. ↑ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 134.
  5. 1 2 Gibson-Hill (1954), p. 133, Fn#4.

References

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Gibson-Hill, C.A. (1954). "The Steamers employed in Asian Waters, 1819-39". Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 27 (1): 120–162.
  • Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
  • Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
  • Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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