Tigris (ship)

Several ships have been named Tigris for the Tigris River:

* Tigris (boat) was a reed boat built and sailed in 1977 by Thor Heyerdahl and a crew to demonstrate the feasibility of ancient migration and trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization.
* Tigris (1802 ship) was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne as an East Indiaman. She made six voyages for the British East India Company before she was sold in 1815. She then sailed as a West Indiaman until she was wrecked on 4 December 1823.
* HCS Tigris (1829), a brig of 258 tons (bm) and 10 guns, was built at the Bombay Dockyard for the EIC's naval arm.[1] (One source misnames her as Tigress.[2]) She sailed under Commander William Igglesden and 2nd Lieut. George Borlase Kempthorne from Bombay to Mer Island, arriving in July 1836, in search of survivors from Charles Eaton (1833 ship).[3] The Indian Navy sold her in 1862.[4]
* PS Tigris (1836), of 109 tons (bm), built by Laird & Co.,[5] was a flat-bottomed, iron, paddle steamer of 26HP.[6] She was disassembled, shipped to the Bay of Antioch, carried overland, and reassembled in 1835 on the Lake of Antioch for the English Euphrates expedition, together with PS Euphrates (1836).[6] She was wrecked at Anah on 21 May 1836. (Euphrates completed the descent.)

## See also

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* HMS Tigris, any one of several vessels or shore establishments of the British Royal Navy

## Citations

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1. ^ Wadia (1986), p. 343.
2. ^ Phipps (1840), p. 158.
3. ^ Peek, Veronica (16 June 2012). "Part Seven: the 'Tigris' chroniclers". Charles Eaton: wake for the melancholy shipwreck.
4. ^ Hackman (2001), p. 333.
5. ^ Colledge & Warlow (2006), p. 134.
6. ^ a b Gibson-Hill (1954), p. 133, Fn#4.

## References

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* Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
* Gibson-Hill, C.A. (1954). "The Steamers employed in Asian Waters, 1819-39". Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. 27 (1): 120–162.
* Hackman, Rowan (2001). Ships of the East India Company. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-96-7.
* Phipps, John (1840). A Collection of Papers Relative to Ship Building in India ...: Also a Register Comprehending All the Ships ... Built in India to the Present Time ... Scott.
* Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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