The ship was assigned to the Torpedo School at Toulon in 1932 and remained there until World War II began in September 1939.

When the Germans attempted to seize the French fleet there in November 1942, she was one of the few ships that was not scuttled and was captured virtually intact.

The Germans later turned her over to the Royal Italian Navy (Regia Marina) who renamed her FR 23 when they recommissioned her in early 1943.

During her sea trials on 3 October 1925, Tigre's turbines provided 57,200 metric horsepower (42,100 kW; 56,400 shp) and she reached 36.7 knots (68.0 km/h; 42.2 mph) for a single hour.

Their anti-aircraft armament consisted of two Canon de 75 mm modèle 1924 guns in single mounts positioned amidships.

She was laid down at their Nantes shipyard on 18 September, launched on 2 August 1924, completed on 1 February 1926 and entered service six days later.

[6] Tigre and Chacal escorted the light cruiser Primauguet to French West Africa between 13 January and 10 April 1931 and the four depth charge throwers were removed in 1932.

The ship was assigned to the 9th DL[Note 1] of the Torpedo Training School (Ecole d'application du lancement à la mer) at Toulon on 1 October 1932.

[8] The ship managed to escape the harbor during the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir on 3 July and briefly engaged the destroyer HMS Wrestler, together with her sister Lynx.

The sisters then depth charged the submarine HMS Proteus[9] as the French ships headed for Toulon, where they arrived the following day.

[10] As the oldest contre-torpilleurs in service, Tigre and her sisters were reduced to reserve and stripped of their light anti-aircraft armament.

She escorted convoys in the Mediterranean until she began a lengthy reconstruction at Oran, French North Africa, that lasted until 3 February 1945.

Afterwards, Tigre served as a stationary training ship for the Engineer School at Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer until she was stricken from the Navy List on 4 January 1954.