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SS Tiger (1917)

Coordinates: 36°45′54″N 75°46′17″W / 36.76500°N 75.77139°W / 36.76500; -75.77139
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History
United States
NameTiger
Owner
Operator
  • Standard Transportation Company (1920–1931)
  • Standard-Vacuum Transportation Company (1931–1935)
  • Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1935–1942)
BuilderUnion Iron Works, San Francisco
Yard number137
Launched21 April 1917
CompletedJune 1917
HomeportNew York
Identification
FateSank 2 April 1942
General characteristics
TypeTanker
Tonnage
Length410 ft 0 in (124.97 m)
Beam56 ft 0 in (17.07 m)
Depth29 ft 0 in (8.84 m)
Installed power594 Nhp, 3,200 ihp
PropulsionUnion Iron Works 3-cylinder triple expansion
Speed10+12 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

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  1. ^ Freitag, Norbert. Shipwrecks Unforgotten.

36°45′54″N 75°46′17″W / 36.76500°N 75.77139°W / 36.76500; -75.77139