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Tigris (N63)
Built By: | Chatham Dockyard (Medway) |
Build Group: | T Group 1 |
Fate: | 27 February 1943 - Probably depth charged off Capri by German UJ2210 |
Roll of Honour
Name | Rank | Number | Hons | Age |
Abrahams, Herbert | Able Seaman | D/JX 135969 | 27 | |
Adams, William Frederick | Able Seaman | P/JX 217652 | 22 | |
Allbrighton, John Lewis | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 78057 | 33 | |
Allen, Leonard Stanley | Able Seaman | P/SSX 17575 | 24 | |
Andrews, Eric Albert | Able Seaman | C/JX 157400 | 21 | |
Andrews, William John | Ordinary Seaman | C/JX 327133 | 19 | |
Baker, Cyril Henry | Leading Seaman | C/JX 158465 | 19 | |
Batten, Charles Dennis | Leading Seaman | P/JX 134220 | 28 | |
Bennett, Harry Charles | Leading Stoker | C/KX 91515 | 27 | |
Bennett, Harry Charles C/KX 91515 DoB 25/07/1915 Age 27 CWGC has Age 32 | ||||
Bovington, Jack | Ordinary Seaman | P/JX 357310 | 19 | |
Brown, Arthur Robert Thomas | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 132389 | 36 | |
Brown, William | Stoker Petty Officer | C/KX 81221 | 30 | |
Cassidy, Michael | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 118554 | 24 | |
Chalk, Ronald Charles | Petty Officer | C/SSX 28170 | 22 | |
Clark, Daniel | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 115875 | 22 | |
Colvin, George Robson | Lieutenant Commander | DSC* | 32 | |
Coulson, Francis Leslie | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 117084 | 20 | |
Crawley-Boevey, Thomas Roger | Sub Lieutenant | 21 | ||
Culbert, William Dudley | Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | D/MX 58232 | 24 | |
Dempster, David | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 93086 | 24 | |
Donachy, James | Able Seaman | C/JX 204200 | 22 | |
Douglas, Woodrow Craig | Leading Steward | D/LX 24527 | MID | 22 |
Dufty, Mervyn Benjamin John | Petty Officer | P/JX 139269 | MID | 24 |
Eaton, Richard Morton Powell | Lieutenant | 23 | ||
Farrington, John Richard | Signalman | D/JX 232506 | 22 | |
Florence, Alfred James | Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class | P/MX 56191 | DSM | 29 |
Forsey, Samuel Frank | Petty Officer Cook | D/MX 50299 | MID | 27 |
Hall, Jack Dinsdale | Ordinary Seaman | P/JX 350069 | 19 | |
Hill, James Alfred | Able Seaman | P/J 96009 | 38 | |
Hurst, Percy | Leading Seaman | D/JX 165403 | 24 | |
Hyde, Charles | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 118388 | 21 | |
King, William Edward | Petty Officer | P/SSX 14893 | 26 | |
Lea, Ralph Hartley | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 76004 | MID | 22 |
Lees, Harry | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | C/MX 92123 | MID | 23 |
Lincoln, William Golden | Engine Room Artificer 1st Class | C/MX 47423 | DSM* | 38 |
Lock, George Leslie | Stoker 1st Class | D/KX 134195 | 21 | |
McCarron, James Aloysius | Able Seaman | C/SSX 21711 | 22 | |
McCarron, James Aloysius C/SSX 21711 CWGC has McCarron, James Aloysius Peter | ||||
Moon, William Henry | Leading Stoker | P/KX 90370 | MID | 25 |
Nicholson, Gordon Stanley | Engineer Lieutenant (RNR) | 30 | ||
Nicholson, Lawrence Frederick | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 121329 | 22 | |
Nutt, Wilfrid | Stoker 1st Class | C/KX 93871 | 23 | |
Nutt, Wilfrid C/KX 93871 Age 23 CWGC has Nutt, Wilfred Age 24 | ||||
O Connor, James | Able Seaman | P/JX 104085 | 37 | |
Outhwaite, Ernest | Stoker 1st Class | P/KX 139396 | 20 | |
Pym, William John | Able Seaman | C/JX 187612 | 22 | |
Quarrell, William Harold | Petty Officer | P/JX 134174 | DSM* | 28 |
Raynor, Leonard John | Leading Seaman | D/JX 153422 | 25 | |
Rennie, Charles Marr | Ordinary Seaman | D/JX 303875 | 19 | |
Rennie, Charles Marr D/JX 303875. At birth Clark, Charles Marr | ||||
Richman, Scott Lyon | Chief Petty Officer | C/JX 130103 | DSM* | 32 |
Roberts, Frederick | Telegraphist | P/SSX 28265 | 22 | |
Rouse, Lawrence John Atkins | Able Seaman | C/JX 129612 | 31 | |
Rowlett, Frank | Able Seaman | C/JX 279122 | 20 | |
Rundle, Norman John | Leading Seaman | D/JX 150670 | 22 | |
Sabbe-St Leger, Anthony Rene | Lieutenant | 22 | ||
At birth Sabbe, Anthony R. Served as Sabbe-St. Leger, Anthony Rene | ||||
Sampson, Roderick Graham | Lieutenant | DSC | 21 | |
Smith, George | Engine Room Artificer 4th Class | D/MX 74893 | 21 | |
Soanes, James William | Able Seaman | P/JX 217643 | 29 | |
Tanner, Frederick Mervyn | Stoker Petty Officer | P/KX 81529 | 30 | |
Thomas, James Fearnley | Leading Telegraphist | P/JX 161281 | 20 | |
Tooke, Donald Percy | Leading Stoker | C/KX 86106 | 25 | |
Tucker, Owen Mountford | Leading Telegraphist | D/JX 159152 | 20 | |
Vines, Robert Stanley | Leading Stoker | D/KX 90328 | MID | 24 |
Wells, Leonard Horace | Able Seaman | P/JX 261993 | 27 | |
Wiles, Maurice Charles William | Able Seaman | C/JX 149469 | 22 | |
Events
11-05-1938 : | Laid Down |
31-10-1939 : | Launched |
20-06-1940 : | Completed |
01-09-1940 : | HMS Tigris sinks the French fishing vessel Sancte Michael with gunfire in the Bay of Biscay near Brest, France. |
02-09-1940 : | HMS Tigris attacks the German submarine U-58 with torpedoes in the Bay of Biscay about 30 nautical miles south-west of Lorient, France. All torpedoes missed. |
05-10-1940 : | HMS Tigris attacks a submarine with torpedoes in the Bay of Biscay. This might have been the Italian submarine Otario. |
16-10-1940 : | HMS Tigris sinks the French fishing vessel Cimcour with gunfire in the Bay of Biscay. |
02-11-1940 : | HMS Tigris fires two torpedoes against the Italian submarine Veniero in the Bay of Biscay of the Gironde estuary. Both torpedoes missed. |
12-11-1940 : | HMS Tigris sinks the French fishing vessel Charles Edmond with gunfire about 70 nautical miles west of the Gironde estuary. |
12-02-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the French fishing vessel Rene Camaleyre in the Bay of Biscay about 5 nautical miles east of Biarritz, France. |
19-02-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the French merchant Jacobsen off Bayonne and the French merchant Guilvinec about 90 nautical miles south-west of the mouth of the Gironde estuary. |
02-04-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the German tanker Thorn about 25 nautical miles west off the Loire estuary. |
05-07-1941 : | The Italian submarine Michele Bianchi is torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of Bordeaux, France by the British submarine HMS Tigris. |
17-08-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the Norwegian passenger/cargo ship Haakon Jarl near Svrholt, Norway. |
13-09-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Richard off the Rolvsoy Fjord about 11 nautical miles north-east of Hammerfest, Norway. |
15-09-1941 : | HMS Tigris fires four torpedoes against the German merchant Bessheim in Lopphavet, Norway. All torpedoes missed. |
17-09-1941 : | HMS Tigris fires four torpedoes against a merchant of 3000 tons in a German convoy in Lopphavet about 10 nautical miles west of Loppa Island, Norway. All four torpedoes missed. |
26-09-1941 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and heavily damages the German auxiliary submarine chaser UJ 1201 off the Rolvsoy Fjord. |
14-10-1941 : | HMS Tigris attacks a convoy off the Laksfjord. Tigris fired three torpedoes but missed the Norwegian merchants Mimona, Tugela and Havbris. |
06-12-1942 : | The Italian submarine Porfido was torpedoed and sunk about 90 nautical miles north-north-east off Bone, Algeria by the British submarine HMS Tigris. |
21-01-1943 : | HMS Tigris torpedoes and sinks the Italian merchant Citta di Genova in the Strait of Otranto about 25 nautical miles west of Saseno Island |
27-02-1943 : | HMS Tigris sailed from Malta on 18th February for a patrol south of Naples. HMS Tigris was last sighted at 0730 on the 24th February, 39 miles from Capri. On the morning of the 27th UJ2210, escorting a convoy six miles south east of Capri made contact with a submarine and carried out three depth charge attacks, the third attack brought oil to the surface and the contact was noted to be stationary. A forth attack of fifteen depth charges brought a huge bubble of air to the surface. On 6th March Tigris was ordered to Algiers but there was no reply to this signal and Tigris failed to return to harbour. |
Comments
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13-09-1941: The "Richard With" was NOT a German merchant ship. It was a Norwegian passenger ship. Plain murder at sea, that´s what it was. |
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