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List of ships named Tiger

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Numerous ships have been named Tiger after the tiger:

Naval

Commercial

  • 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 3276894 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 Calcutta. All 26 people on board survived. Later, a shark killed one of them; 14 sailed to seek another island from where rescue could be arranged, and disappeared without a trace. The whaler Emma rescued the remaining 11 people 70 days after the shipwreck.

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