HMS Tigris (N63)

HMS Tigris (N63)
General data
Ship type :	Submarine
Ship class :	Triton class ( T class )
Navy :	Royal Navy
Builder :	Chatham Dockyard ( Chatham )
Keel laying :	May 11, 1938
Launch :	October 31, 1939
Commissioning:	June 20, 1940
Whereabouts:	Missed in the Mediterranean since March 10, 1943 .
Technical data (see Triton class )

HMS Tigris (N63) was a submarine of the British Royal Navy . It was used in World War II and was lost in the Mediterranean in 1943 .

Mission history

see: History of the Triton Class

At the beginning of its service life, the Tigris was used in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay , where it sank four French fishing vessels, two French freighters, a German tanker and an Italian submarine between July 1940 and July 1941. During the same period, HMS Tigris attacked the Italian submarine Veniero and the German submarine U 58 without success. Another submarine was also attacked without a hit. It was probably the Italian Otario .

In the second half of 1941 the Tigris was used in the North Sea . The British submarine sank a Norwegian freighter and the Richard With , a Norwegian passenger ship of the Hurtigruten, here . A German auxiliary U-fighter was badly damaged.

Later HMS Tigris relocated to the Mediterranean . The Tigris sank an Italian submarine in December 1942 and an Italian freighter in January 1943.

HMS Tigris left on 18 February 1943, the basis on Malta to before Naples to patrol. Then the submarine was to run to Algiers , where it was expected on March 10, 1943. The Tigris never reached the Algerian port and has been since March 10th. Officially missing in 1943. There were no survivors. The submarine was probably sunk by the German submarine UJ-2210 as early as February 27, 1943, six nautical miles southeast of Capri . Another possible explanation for the loss is that the Tigris ran into a sea ​​mine .

Commanders

• According to Cdr. Howard Francis Bone (March 6, 1940 - January 19, 1942)
• According to Cdr. Lennox William Napier (January 19, 1942 - April 15, 1942)
• According to Cdr. George Robson Colvin (April 15, 1942 - † March 10, 1943)

Battle successes (selection)

see also: Detailed history of the T-Class

date
September 1, 1940	HMS Tigris sinks the French fishing vessel Sancte Michael (168 GRT) with on-board artillery in the Bay of Biscay near Brest .
October 16, 1940	HMS Tigris sank the French fishing vessel Cimcour (250 GRT) with onboard artillery in the Bay of Biscay at 45 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  W.
November 12, 1940	HMS Tigris sunk the French fishing vessel Charles Edmond (301 BRT) with the deck gun 70 nautical miles west of the Gironde estuary at 45 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 2 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W.
February 12, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed and sank the French fishing vessel Rene Camaleyre (243 GRT) in the Bay of Biscay five nautical miles east of Biarritz at 43 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 1 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  W.
February 19, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed and sank the French cargo ship Jacobsen (523 GRT) off Bayonne . On the same day, the submarine torpedoed and sunk the French freighter Guilvinec (3273 GRT) 90 nautical miles southwest of the Gironde estuary at 44 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  W.
April 2, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed and sunk the German tanker Thorn (5486 GRT) 25 nautical miles west of the Loire estuary .
July 5, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed and sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of Bordeaux at about 45 ° 0 '0 "  N , 4 ° 0' 0"  W , the Italian submarine Michele Bianchi .
August 17, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoes and sunk before Sværholt (Norway) at 71 ° 3 '0 "  N , 26 ° 43' 0"  O Norwegian cargo and passenger vessel Haakon Jarl (1492 BRT).
September 13, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed and sunk off the island of Rolvsøy about 11 nautical miles northeast of Hammerfest at 70 ° 50 '0 "  N , 23 ° 57' 0"  O the Norwegian Hurtigruten passenger liner Richard With (905 BRT).
September 26, 1941	HMS Tigris torpedoed the German auxiliary submarine fighter UJ 1201 (527 GRT) off Rolvsøy . The German warship was badly damaged and was not put back into service until April 1944.
December 6, 1942	HMS Tigris torpedoes and sunk before Algeria at 38 ° 10 '0 "  N , 8 ° 35' 0"  O Italian submarine Porfido .
January 21, 1943	HMS Tigris torpedoes and sunk in the street of Otranto 25 nautical miles west of Sazan ( Albania ) at 40 ° 32 '0 "  N , 18 ° 45' 0"  O Italian freighter Citta di Genova (5413 BRT).

See also

• HMS Tigris (other British ships of the same name)

Web links

Commons : HMS Tigris  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• HMS Tigris on uboat.net ( engl. )
• Submarine losses of the Royal Navy (Engl.)
• British submarines during World War II (Engl.)

literature

• Erminio Bagnasco: Submarines in World War II , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 5th edition 1996, ISBN 3-613-01252-9
• Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
• Peter Padfield: The submarine war 1939-1945 , Ullstein Taschenbuchverlag, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-548-24766-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hutchinson and Bagnasco do not provide any information on the launching of the T-class submarines. The information on launch runs comes from uboat.net .
2. ↑ The uboat.net gives the reason for the loss of the HMS Tigris the attack by a German submarine hunter near Capri. Hutchinson cites a sea mine as the cause of the loss.
3. ↑ Howard Francis Bone in uboat.net (Engl.)
4. ↑ Lennox William Napier in uboat.net (engl.)
5. ↑ George Robson Colvin in uboat.net (engl.)
6. ↑ Michele Bianchi ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.regiamarina.net (engl.)  
7. ↑ Haakon Jarl on www.warsailors.com/homefleet (Engl.)
8. ↑ Porfidio  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.regiamarina.net (engl.)  

Remarks

1. ↑ HMS is the abbreviation for His / Her Majesty's Ship and the name prefix of British ships. HMS means His / Her Majesty's Ship . Tigris is a river.