Italian destroyer Tigre

Tigre was the third of the three Leone-class flotilla leaders built for the Regia Marina, the Italian navy, in the early 1920s. Gio. Ansaldo & C. built her at Genoa, laying her down on 23 January 1922, launching her on 7 August 1924 and completing her in October of that year. She was designed as a scout cruiser, an esploratore, essentially an enlarged destroyer about 113 metres long, driven by two Parsons steam turbines supplied by four Yarrow boilers rated at 42,000 horsepower, and she reached 33.5 knots on her sea trials. Her armament was eight 120 millimetre guns in four twin turrets with two triple torpedo tube mounts. The class was re-rated as destroyers in 1938. Based at Massawa in Eritrea during the Second World War, Tigre reached the Arabian shore after the last sortie from Massawa on 31 March 1941, and her crew scuttled her in shallow water; British aircraft and the destroyer Kingston later destroyed the wreck.