The Tiger was a ship

Ship

Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

 that was torpedo

Torpedo

The modern torpedo is a self-propelled missile weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with it or in proximity to it.The term torpedo was originally employed for...

ed on April 1, 1942, off the coast of Virginia

Virginia

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. It sank as a result and its remains have been located as a shipwreck

Shipwreck

A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

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SS Tiger----------------------2 Mast 1 Stack 410 x 56 ft. 5,992 ton American Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Tanker completed 1917 San Francisco CA, torpedoed 4/1/1942 carrying 64,321 barrels of Navy fuel oil, by German WWII sub U-754, hit stbd. side aft of amidships #5 tank, taken in tow & sank next day in 55 ft. wtr. in Cheasapeake Bay, 8.2 miles east of Sandbridge Beach, lies on stbd. side, quite broken up, 58 ft. wtr. i life lost. 27101.6/41188.8 36-50N/75-49W sold 1954 for breaking up.