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Allied Warships

HMS Le Tiger (FY 243)

ASW Trawler

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeASW Trawler
Class 
PennantFY 243 
Built byCochrane & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. (Selby, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down 
Launched27 Feb, 1937 
CommissionedDec, 1939 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryCompleted in May 1937.
Taken over by the Admiralty in December 1939.
Displacement: 516 tons.
Armament: 1 4" gun.

Lent to the United States Navy in March 1942, returned in October 1942.
Sold in October 1945 to the Hull Ice Co.
Renamed Regal in July 1947.
Renamed Othello in September 1948.
Scrapped at Ghent, Belgium mid-1963.

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Noteable events involving Le Tiger include:

3 Jul, 1942
HMS Le Tiger (T/Lt. C.A. Hoodless, RNR) picks up 31 survivors of the American merchant Alexander Macomb that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-215 east of Cape Cod in position 41.48N, 66.35W. Shortly afterwards U-215 was sunk in position 41.48N, 66.38W by depth charges from HMS Le Tiger.

On 13 July 2004 it is reported that the wreck of U-215 was found. (see map)


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