SS Tiger was a tanker that was torpedoed on 1 April 1942 off the coast of Virginia during World War II. Tiger was an American Socony-Vacuum Oil Company tanker completed in 1917 at San Francisco, California. 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 . References Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast World War II shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean Ships sunk by German submarines in World War II Maritime incidents in April 1942 Ships built in San Francisco 1917 ships