List of ships named Tiger
Several ships have been named Tiger after the tiger:
- 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 (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 Astorva Island, Seychelles, on passage from London for Bombay, or Calcuttaa. All 26 people on board survived. One of them was killed by a shark, fourteen sailed to seek another island from where rescue could be arranged. No further trace. Eleven people were rescued 70 days after the shipwreck by the whaler Emma.
- SS Tiger (1917) was a tanker that was torpedoed on 1 April 1942 off the coast of Virginia during World War II
See also
- HMS Tiger - one of 15 vessels of the British Royal Navy by that name
- French ship Tigre - one of at least three vessels of the French Navy by that name
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