SS Tiger

SS Tiger was an American Socony-Vacuum Oil Company tanker completed in 1917 at San Francisco, California. Between 1918 and 1919, she was operated by the US Navy under the name USS Tiger .
Tiger was carrying of Navy fuel oil when the German submarine torpedoed her on 1 April 1942. The torpedo hit Tiger on her starboard side aft of amidships tank #5 and one crewman lost his life. She was taken in tow and sank on 2 April in of water in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Sandbridge Beach, Virginia. She lies on her starboard side, quite broken up, at a depth of.