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TIGER light cruiser (1888)

Tiger 1888

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Tiger, 1906- Lacroma   217 STT, San Rocco 5.10.1886 28.6.1887 3/1888 yacht 1906, stricken 1915

 

Displacement normal, t

1657

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

76.0 oa 74.2 wl

Breadth, m

10.6

Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VC, 6 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

5700

Max speed, kts

18.6

Fuel, t

coal 300

Endurance, nm(kts) 2500(10)
Armour, mm steel; deck: 12

Armament

4 x 1 - 120/31 G. L/35 C.87, 6 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H, 4 x 5 - 47/22 SFK L/25 H, 4 - 350 TT (1 bow, 2 beam, 1 stern)

Complement

188

Project history: Tiger was an enlarged and improved version of the Bntish-built Panther class.

Ship protection: Steel deck had 12mm thickness.

Modernizations: 1906: was armed with only 6 x 1 - 47/40 SFK L/44 H

Naval service: In 1905/6 Tiger was converted into an admiralty yacht, her main armament was removed and she was renamed Lacroma. In 1915 she was completely disarmed; 1918 she became Yugoslavian, and in 1920 she was ceded to Italy and scrapped there.

Tiger 1894

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014