# HMS Tiger > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/HMS_Tiger > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/HMS_Tiger.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tiger > Source revision: 1281635481 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2017}} Fifteen ships of the British [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) have carried the name '''HMS ''Tiger''''' after the feline [tiger](/source/tiger), with a number of others provisionally bearing the name at various stages in their construction: 'HMS' – the abbreviation for 'His' or 'Her Majesty's Ship' is an anachronism before about 1820, when it became a common use by ship commanders; its accepted use by the [Admiralty](/source/British_Admiralty) did not happen until some years later. * [''Tiger'' (1546)](/source/Roanoke_Colony) was a 22-gun ship built in 1546, rebuilt in 1570, which was the [flagship](/source/flagship) of the 1586 expedition to the [Roanoke Colony](/source/Roanoke_Colony). In use as a [floating battery](/source/floating_battery) after 1600, she was condemned in 1605. * {{ship|English ship|Tiger|1613}} was a discovery vessel recorded in the [Arctic](/source/Arctic) in 1613. * {{ship|English ship|Tyger|1647}} was a 32-gun ship [launched](/source/Ceremonial_ship_launching) in 1647, rebuilt in 1681, 1701, 1705 and 1721, and wrecked in 1742. * [HMS ''Tiger''](/source/HMS_Harwich_(1743)) was a 50-gun [fourth rate](/source/fourth_rate) renamed ''Harwich'' shortly before launching in 1743. She was wrecked in 1760. * {{HMS|Tiger|1747}} was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1747. She was [hulked](/source/Hulk_(ship_type)) in 1761 and sold in Bombay in 1765. * {{HMS|Tiger|1762}} was a 74-gun [third rate](/source/third_rate), previously the Spanish {{ship|Spanish ship|Tigre|1747|2}}. She was captured in 1762 and sold in 1784. * [HMS ''Tiger''](/source/HMS_Ardent_(1764)) was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1764 as {{HMS|Ardent|1764|6}}. She was captured by the French in 1764, but was recaptured in 1782 and renamed HMS ''Tiger''. She was sold in 1784. * [HMS ''Tiger''](/source/HMS_Grampus_(1802)) was to have been a 50-gun fourth rate, but she was renamed {{HMS|Grampus|1802|6}} before her launch in 1802. * {{HMS|Tiger|1794}} was a 4-gun [hoy](/source/hoy_(boat)) purchased in 1794 and sold in 1798. * {{HMS|Tigre|1795}} was an 80-gun [second rate](/source/second_rate) captured from the French in 1795. She was [broken up](/source/Ship_breaking) by 1817. * {{HMS|Tiger|1808}} was a 12-gun [brig](/source/brig) in service from 1808 to 1812. * {{HMS|Tiger|1849}} was a wooden-hulled paddle [sloop](/source/sloop-of-war) launched in 1849, reclassified as a [frigate](/source/frigate) in 1852, and was destroyed in action with the [Russians](/source/Russian_Empire) off [Odessa](/source/Odessa) in 1854. * {{HMS|Tiger|1900}} was a {{sclass2|C|destroyer|||1913}} launched in 1900. She was sunk in 1908 in a collision with the [cruiser](/source/cruiser) {{HMS|Berwick|1902|6}}. * {{HMS|Tiger|1913}} was a [battlecruiser](/source/battlecruiser) launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1932. * HMS ''Tiger'' was to have been a {{sclass|Minotaur|cruiser (1943)|0}} [light cruiser](/source/light_cruiser). She was initially ordered in 1942, but renamed HMS ''Bellerophon'' later that year and was [laid down](/source/Keel_laying) in 1944. She was renamed HMS ''Blake'' in 1944, HMS ''Bellerophon'' again in 1945 and was cancelled in 1946. * HMS ''Tiger'' was another proposed ''Minotaur''-class cruiser, initially ordered as HMS ''Blake''. She was renamed HMS ''Tiger'' in 1944, and then HMS ''Blake'' again in 1945. After work was suspended in 1946, she was completed and launched in 1961 as {{HMS|Blake|C99|6}}. * {{HMS|Tiger|C20}} was another ''Minotaur''-class cruiser, initially ordered as HMS ''Bellerophon''. She was renamed and launched as HMS ''Tiger'' in 1945. She was laid up in 1946 and completed in 1959 as a {{sclass|Tiger|cruiser|0}} cruiser. She was scrapped in 1986. ==Battle honours== Ships named ''Tiger'' have earned the following [battle honours](/source/Battle_honour): {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *[Armada](/source/Spanish_Armada), 1588 *[Portland](/source/Battle_of_Portland), 1653 *[Gabbard](/source/Battle_of_the_Gabbard), 1653 *[Scheveningen](/source/Battle_of_Scheveningen), 1653 *[Lowestoft](/source/Battle_of_Lowestoft), 1665 *[Orfordness](/source/St._James's_Day_Battle), 1666 *[Sole Bay](/source/Battle_of_Solebay), 1672 *[Marbella](/source/Battle_of_Cabrita_Point), 1705 *[Sadras](/source/Battle_of_Cuddalore_(1758)), 1758 *[Negapatam](/source/Battle_of_Negapatam_(1758)), 1758 *[Porto Novo](/source/Battle_of_Pondicherry), 1759 *[Basque Roads](/source/Battle_of_the_Basque_Roads), 1809 *[Dogger Bank](/source/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)), 1915 *[Jutland](/source/Battle_of_Jutland), 1916 {{div col end}} ==See also== * {{HMS|Tiger Bay}} * {{HMS|Tigress}} * {{HMS|Tigre}} {{Ship index}} {{Italic title prefixed|3}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiger, Hms}} Category:Royal Navy ship names --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [HMS Tiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tiger) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tiger?action=history)). 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