Lewin of Greenwich Naval History & Forum

Tiger's armament was two twin 6" turrets, one forr'd, one aft. three 3" twin turrets, one forr'd, blue turret, one port side red turret & one starboard side green turret. Was Blakes armamant different?

I came across this photograph on a RNZAF site of Tiger taken in 1960

My office, the Naval Stores Office was under the forrard 3", a bit noisy on the days it was working.

We had a good run ashore in Middlesborough, the N.A.D.S. became our home from home.
This photograph of me shoveling hops into the brewing vats was published in the local paper and they sent me a decent copy of it, pictured with me is Mick Fryer jack dusty, we are still in touch.

Happy Birthday H.M.S. TIGER Launched John Browns "Bellerophon" was renamed Tiger in 1945, and was launched, partially constructed, on 25 October 1945. She was christened by Lady Stansgate, the wife of William Benn, Viscount Stansgate, the Secretary of State for Air.


I can't find any photos of the launch, does anyone have any.

Here is a rare one of her in Hull 1965. A fabulous run ashore.

limeybiker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:11 pm Happy Birthday H.M.S. TIGER Launched John Browns "Bellerophon" was renamed Tiger in 1945, and was launched, partially constructed, on 25 October 1945. She was christened by Lady Stansgate, the wife of William Benn, Viscount Stansgate, the Secretary of State for Air.


I can't find any photos of the launch, does anyone have any.

Here is a rare one of her in Hull 1965. A fabulous run ashore.

None of her launch but this one is of her fitting at at John Browns shipyard with Vanguard

Jim

Here is the LION fitting out in 1960...........lot$a money, poor results given the massive problems with both the 6" and 3"....... Howver, in 1960 the TIGER did manage to fire off 25 rounds; was that ever duplicated??? DFO

I was in Tiger during the visit to Hull, great time, especially the ball they put on.

My elder brother Dennis's friends semi professional boxers were bouncers on the door at the City Hall Ship's Ball, We met two lovely ladies on the bus, remember, we had freedom of the city buses were free, I tried to take them in to the Ball, Alan said to me, "Barry there are more ladies in there, than you can shake a stick at". What a night that was.
All the RA's had gone South to their homes, there must have been three ladies to every Matelot.
Fortunately the City had laid on double decker buses to get us back to the ship, it was three miles from the dockyard gate to the ship.
We visited my dad's Manor Road Working Men's Club, we weren't allowed to spend any money.

Jack Dustys and Scribes Mess HMS Tiger 1965, en route to Bermuda unfortunately the camera double exposed.