SS Tiger (1917)

Tiger was an American Socony-Vacuum Oil Company tanker completed in 1917 at San Francisco, California. Tiger was carrying 64321 barrels of Navy fuel oil when the German submarine GS U-754 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 55 ft of water in the Atlantic Ocean, 8.2 mi east of Sandbridge Beach, Virginia. She lies on her starboard side, quite broken up, at a depth of 58 ft.