HMS Tiger (1747)

History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Tiger
Ordered: 17 March 1746
Builder: Stanton and Wells, Rotherhithe
Laid down: April 1746
Launched: 23 November 1747
Commissioned: December 1747
In service:
  • 1747–1752
  • 1753–1765
Honours and
awards:
Fate: Sold out of service, Bombay, 12 May 1765
General characteristics
Class and type: 1745 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,218 15⁄94 bm
Length:
  • 150 ft 9 in (45.9 m) (gundeck)
  • 123 ft 3 in (37.6 m)
Beam: 43 ft 1 in (13.1 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Complement: 420
Armament:
  • 60 guns:
  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 18 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Tiger or Tygre was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Rotherhithe to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment and launched on 23 November 1747.[1]

Tiger was commissioned in December 1747 under Captain Charles Saunders, as a reinforcement for the British fleet then in action against France in the War of the Austrian Succession. She was assigned to a squadron under the overall command of Admiral Peter Warren, but saw no active engagement in her first months at sea. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in April 1748, and Tiger was returned to Deptford for service as a guard ship. Charles Steevens replaced Saunders as Tiger's captain in 1749, but the vessel remained at Deptford until she was decommissioned in November 1752.[2]

Two months later, in January 1753, Tiger was restored to her duties as a guard ship but relocated to Portsmouth Dockyard. Command was transferred to Captain Samuel Marshall, and then to Captain Thomas Latham in early 1754. In early 1754 the vessel was assigned to the protection of British merchant interests in the East Indies.[2]

She participated in the Battle of Chandannagar.[3] Tiger was converted to serve as a hulk in 1760, and in 1765 she was sold out of the Navy.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lavery 2003, p.173.
  2. 1 2 Winfield 2007, p. 130
  3. ↑ Naravane, M.S. (2014). Battles of the Honorourable East India Company. A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 38. ISBN 9788131300343.

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