USS Tigress (1905)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Tigress.

History
United States
Name:	USS Tigress
Namesake:	Previous name retained
Builder:	W. A. Robinson, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Completed:	1905
Acquired:	1917
Commissioned:	18 August 1917
Fate:	Returned to owner after World War I
Notes:	Operated as private yawl Tigress 1905-1917 and after World War I
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol vessel
Tonnage:	24 Gross register tons
Length:	56 ft (17 m)
Beam:	15 ft 3 in (4.65 m)
Draft:	4 ft 3 in (1.30 m)
Speed:	7 miles per hour [1]
Complement:	8
Armament:	1 × 1-pounder gun 1 × machine gun

The fourth USS Tigress was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 or 1919.

Tigress was built in 1905 as a private yawl of the same name by W. A. Robinson at Bridgeport, Connecticut. On 26 June 1917, the U.S. Navy inspected her in the 7th Naval District for possible naval use and chartered her from her owner that year for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She never received a section patrol (SP) number, but was commissioned on 18 August 1917 as USS Tigress.

Assigned to the 7th Naval District and manned by naval reservists, Tigress served on section patrol duties in the Tampa, Florida, area for the rest of World War I. The Navy returned her to her owner soon after the end of the war.

Notes

1. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and NavSource Online give Tigress's speed as 7 miles per hour, implying statute miles per hour, an unusual unit of measure for the speed of a watercraft. It is possible that her speed actually was 7 knots. If 7 statute miles per hour is accurate, the equivalent in knots is 6.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.
• NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive Tigress