For other ships of the same name, see USS Tigress.
| USS Tigress (1905) | |
|---|---|
| Career (United States) |  |
| Name: | USS Tigress |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Builder: | W. A. Robinson, Bridgeport, Connecticut |
| Completed: | 1905 |
| Acquired: | 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 18 August 1917 |
| Fate: | Returned to owner after World War I |
| Notes: | Operated as private yawl Tigress 1905-1917 and after World War I |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Tonnage: | 24 gross tons |
| Length: | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Beam: | 15 ft 3 in (4.65 m) |
| Draft: | 4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) |
| Speed: | 7 miles per hour[1] |
| Complement: | 8 |
| Armament: |
1 x 1-pounder gun 1 x machine gun |
The fourth USS Tigress was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 or 1919.
Tigress was built in 1905 as a private yawl of the same name by W. A. Robinson at Bridgeport, Connecticut. On 26 June 1917, the U.S. Navy inspected her in the 7th Naval District for possible naval use and chartered her from her owner that year for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She never received a section patrol (SP) number, but was commissioned on 18 August 1917 as USS Tigress.
Assigned to the 7th Naval District and manned by naval reservists, Tigress served on section patrol duties in the Tampa, Florida, area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to her owner soon after the end of the war.
Notes[]
- ↑ The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t5/tigress-iv.htm and NavSource Online at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/179925.htm give Tigress's speed as 7 miles per hour, implying statute miles per hour, an unusual unit of measure for the speed of a watercraft. It is possible that her speed actually was 7 knots. If 7 statute miles per hour is accurate, the equivalent in knots is 6.
References[]
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Tigress at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Vessels without Numbers (listed alphabetically by name)
- NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Tigress
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