Updated
Updated · Popular Mechanics · Aug 14
ProjectXplore Finds HMS Tiger 200 Feet Down, Solving 118-Year-Old 1908 Wreck Mystery
Updated
Updated · Popular Mechanics · Aug 14

ProjectXplore Finds HMS Tiger 200 Feet Down, Solving 118-Year-Old 1908 Wreck Mystery

3 articles · Updated · Popular Mechanics · Aug 14

Summary

  • ProjectXplore found HMS Tiger in two sections 200 feet below the English Channel after a five-year search, ending more than 118 years of failed efforts to locate the destroyer.
  • Sonar, archival research and dives showed the 400-ton ship was split by HMS Berwick in 1908, with the two wreck sections now lying about 450 feet apart on the seabed.
  • Control dials set 5 to 10 degrees to starboard and an engine telegraph still pointing to full indicate Tiger neither turned away nor slowed before impact.
  • The collision killed 35 of Tiger’s 57 crew, and the remains of those sailors are believed to still rest inside the wreck, which had become a national tragedy in Britain.

Insights

With the wreck's location kept strictly secret, what other forgotten artifacts from the tragic 1908 collision remain hidden in the deep?
Why did HMS Tiger sail into a massive cruiser in the dark without altering course, and who was truly to blame?
How will the UK's new automatic protection laws permanently alter the future of deep-sea shipwreck exploration and salvage?