High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Tigress was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I. She was built under the 1910 11 shipbuilding programme by R. W. Hawthorn Leslie & Company of Hebburn, was launched on 20 December 1911 and was sold for breaking on 9 May 1921. HMS Tigress was assigned to the First Destroyer Flotilla, which became part of the Grand Fleet at the outbreak of World War I.