H.M.S. Tigress (1911)

H.M.S. Tigress (1911)
Pendant Number:	H.92 (1914) H.4A (Jan-Apr 1918)^[1]
Builder:	Hawthorn Leslie & Company^[2]
Ordered:	1910-11 Programme^[3]
Launched:	20 Dec, 1911^[4]
Completed:	Apr, 1912^[5]
Sold:	9 May, 1921^[6]

H.M.S. Tigress was one of twenty-nine destroyers of the Acheron class.

Radio

She was one of 18 Acheron class destroyers fitted with W/T in 1912, becoming one of 123 destroyers so far fitted with Destroyer Sets.^[7]

Service

In mid-1913, with the First Destroyer Flotilla.^[8]

On 22 July 1914, Tigress collided with the destroyer Sandfly due to the Sandfly being in the wrong position.^[9]

On 24 January 1915, Tigress fought with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Battle of Dogger Bank.

In 1915, while serving in the First Destroyer Flotilla out of South Queensferry, a wave stove in Tigress's bridge railings so far that Lieutenant-Commander Whitfield's ribs were fractured.^[10]

In June, 1916, she moved to the Second Destroyer Flotilla, operating out of Devonport.

On 14 November, 1916, Lieutenant Commander Yorke's prompt actions in lifesaving efforts following a submarine attack on S.S. Idaho reflected great credit upon him.^[11]

In August, 1917, Tigress was transferred to the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla, which was also part of Devonport's defensive force. In November, she left with Attack to join the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean.

On 19 January, 1918, Tigress, under the command of Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Bernard Newill and her sister ship Lizard were opposed the German-Turkish ships Breslau and Goeben in the Battle of Imbros, in which the British lost the monitors M.28 and Raglan to long range enemy fire before the enemy ships fell afoul a minefield. In January, 1919, she was one of eight destroyers ordered home from 5 D.F..

Tigress was reduced to a C. & M. Party at Devonport on 15 October, 1919.^[12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Lieutenant-Commander Paul Whitfield, 25 March, 1912^[13] – 28 May, 1915 (Hallett substituted for him in command during a month's illness)
Lieutenant & Commander John I. Hallett, 28 May, 1915^[14] – 23 June, 1915^[15] (temporarily, while Whitfield was ill)
Lieutenant-Commander Astley D. C. Cooper-Key, c. 1 April, 1916^[16] – 24 April, 1916^[17]
Lieutenant in Command Joseph H. L. Yorke, 11 June, 1916^[18]^[19] – 4 January, 1917^[20]
Lieutenant in Command Frank A. C. Baker, 4 January, 1917^[21]^[22] – 5 November, 1917^[23]
Lieutenant-Commander (I) Joseph B. Newill, 5 November, 1917^[24]^[25] – 20 May, 1919