HMS Tigress (1911)

	HMS Tigress during World War I
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tigress
Builder	R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn
Launched	20 December 1911
Fate	Sold 9 May 1921
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	770 tons
Length	75 m (246 ft)
Beam	7.8 m (26 ft)
Draught	2.7 m (8.9 ft)
Propulsion	Three shaft Parsons Turbines; Three Yarrow boilers (oil fired); 13,500 shp;
Speed	27 kn (50 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V; 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I; 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes;

HMS Tigress was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I. She was built under the 1910–11 shipbuilding programme by R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company of Hebburn, was launched on 20 December 1911 and was sold for breaking on 9 May 1921.

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