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Tiger Stockholm 15 August 2010

Image showing Tiger with two Sea King mk1's. Although she usually carried three, she really only had space for two. As in the RFA Fort class, more than two Sea Kings involved a complex flight deck ballet to ensure enough deck space to safely operate the spotted aircraft.

last of image series

Another image of the received series.

An interesting photo of Portsmouth with Tiger and others laid up. photo sent to me hence I do not know who took it, sorry if yours !

Off Dover in the summer of 1981

Passing the Normandy Ferries vessel in the English Channel

Inbound for Portbury

When she was still a good looker.

Helicopter landing trials.

Aerial view of the Tiger before her looks were ruined,

Cruiser HMS Tiger (C 20)

Cruiser HMS Tiger

Cruiser HMS Tiger in the grand harbour of Malta

Photographed at Portsmouth on 22 September 1986 , with the tug Smit Lloyd 25 alongside. The tug had arrived at Portsmouth to take Tiger to her final resting place, the Spanish shipbreakers Desquaces Valera. The tow was to being the next day, which was a dull and misty day. Sorry for the scratches

Photograph undated but suspect it was taken 1959-1960 when Tiger was in the Mediterranean on her first commission. Tiger started out as Bellerophon laid down in 1941 at the John Brown Shipyard as part of the Minotaur class of light cruisers. They had a low construction priority due to more pressing

HMS Dreadnought photographed in July 1973 taking the crewmen from the cargo ship MV Carnation after it had collided with the tanker MV Anson in the Malacca Straits, it was the first major rescue at sea by a British nuclear submarine. HMS Tiger with her helicopters of 826 NAS and HMS Rhyl also took

Seen from one of HMS Tiger’s helicopters , HMS Dreadnought photographed in July 1973 taking the crewmen from the cargo ship MV Carnation after it had collided with the tanker MV Anson in the Malacca Straits, it was the first major rescue at sea by a British nuclear submarine. HMS Tiger with her heli

Photographed 11 June 1982, laid up in Portsmouth Harbour