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'''H.M.S. ''Tigress''''' was one of 29 destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
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'''H.M.S. ''Tigress''''' was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the [[Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acheron'' class]].
  
 
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In mid-1913, with the {{UK-DF|1}}.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913), p. 387.</ref>
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In 1915, while serving in the {{UK-DF|1}} out of South Queensferry, a wave stove in ''Tigress's'' bridge railings so far that {{LCommRN}} Whitfield's ribs were fractured.{{HardLying|p. 121}}
 
In 1915, while serving in the {{UK-DF|1}} out of South Queensferry, a wave stove in ''Tigress's'' bridge railings so far that {{LCommRN}} Whitfield's ribs were fractured.{{HardLying|p. 121}}
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Dates of appointment are provided when known.
 
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Revision as of 17:46, 30 September 2014

H.M.S. Tigress (1911)
Pendant Number: H.92 (1914)
H.4A (Jan-Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie[2]
Ordered: 1910-11 Programme[3]
Launched: 20 Dec, 1911[4]
Completed: Apr, 1912[5]
Sold: 9 May, 1921[6]

H.M.S. Tigress was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.[7]

Service

In mid-1913, with the First Destroyer Flotilla.[8]

In 1915, while serving in the First Destroyer Flotilla out of South Queensferry, a wave stove in Tigress's bridge railings so far that Lieutenant-Commander Whitfield's ribs were fractured.[9]

Reduced to C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.[10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 75.
  4. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  5. ↑ Friedman. British Destroyers. p. 306.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 62.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912. Wireless Appendix, p. 6.
  8. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1913). p. 387.
  9. ↑ Smith. Hard Lying. p. 121.
  10. ↑ The Navy List. (January, 1921). p. 875.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1915). p. 398r.
  12. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1916). p. 398s.
  13. ↑ The Navy List. (November, 1917). p. 398l.
  14. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1919). p. 920.

Bibliography


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