SS Tiger (1917) explained
-- commercial vessels -->| Ship Country: | United States | | Ship Name: | Tiger | | Ship Owner: | - Standard Oil Co. (1917–1930)
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1930–1942)
| | Ship Operator: | - Standard Transportation Company (1920–1931)
- Standard-Vacuum Transportation Company (1931–1935)
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1935–1942)
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| | Ship Builder: | Union Iron Works, San Francisco | | Ship Yard Number: | 137 | | Ship Launched: | 21 April 1917 | | Ship Completed: | June 1917 | | Ship Identification: |
| | Ship Fate: | Sank 2 April 1942 |
| Ship Type: | Tanker | | Ship Length: | 410feet | | Ship Beam: | 56feet | | Ship Depth: | 29feet | | Ship Power: | 594 Nhp, 3,200 ihp | | Ship Propulsion: | Union Iron Works 3-cylinder triple expansion | | Ship Speed: | NaNkn |
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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 of Navy fuel oil when the German submarine 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 of water in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Sandbridge Beach, Virginia. She lies on her starboard side, quite broken up, at a depth of .[1]
References
36.765°N -75.7714°W
Notes and References
- Book: Freitag, Norbert . Shipwrecks Unforgotten .
