HMS Tigris (N63)
HMS Tigris in Plymouth Sound in July 1942
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| Name: | HMS Tigris |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 11 May 1938 |
| Launched: | 31 October 1939 |
| Commissioned: | 20 June 1940 |
| Identification: | Pennant number N63 |
| Fate: | Sunk by Axis forces, 27 February 1943 |
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| Class and type: | T-class submarine |
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| Length: | 275 ft (84 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
| Draught: | 16.3 ft (5.0 m) |
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| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 11 knots (20 km/h) surfaced |
| Test depth: | 300 ft (91 m) max |
| Complement: | 59 |
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HMS Tigris was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched in October 1939.
Tigris had a relatively active career, serving in the North Sea and the Mediterranean.
Tigris was active in the Bay of Biscay from July 1940, under the command of Commander Howard Bone. She sank the French fishing vessels Sancte Michael, Cimcour, Charles Edmond and Rene Camaleyre, the French merchantmen Jacobsen and Guilvinec, and the German tanker Thorn. She unsuccessfully attacked a number of submarines, including the German submarine U-58 On 5 October 1940, Tigris made an unsuccessful attack on two Italian submarines off Bordeaux, Reginaldo Giuliani and Maggiore Barracca.
On 5 July 1941 Tigris torpedoed and sank the Italian submarine Michele Bianchi 150 nm off the Gironde estuary as the Italian submarine was on passage to the Atlantic.
She was assigned to operate in the North Sea near the Scandinavian coast in mid-1941. Off the coast of Finnmark, she sank the Norwegian passenger/cargo ships Haakon Jarl and Richard With, In the case of Richard With, the ship sank in less than a minute, killing two of the three German soldiers on board and claiming the lives of 101 Norwegian civilians.
Post-war, the Norwegian public was told the attacks had been carried out by Soviet submarines. She also attacked and badly damaged the German auxiliary submarine chaser Uj-1201 off the Rolvsøy Fjord. The bow of the ship sank but the stern was towed to port and the ship was rebuilt, entering service again in April 1944. In addition, Tigris unsuccessfully attacked the German merchant ship Bessheim and a merchantman of 3,000 tons; she also attacked a convoy, but missed her targets; the Norwegian merchant ships Mimona, Tugela and Havbris.
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