Tiger was the third of six Type 24 torpedo boats built for the German Navy (initially called the Reichsmarine and then renamed as the Kriegsmarine in 1935) during the 1920s.

[3] The boats carried enough fuel oil to give them a range of 1,997 nmi (3,698 km; 2,298 mi) at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph).

[4] As built, the Type 24s mounted three 10.5 cm (4.1 in) SK C/28[Note 1] guns, one forward and two aft of the superstructure, numbered one through three from bow to stern.

[8] Shortly before the German declaration of war on Poland on 1 September 1939, many of the Kriegsmarine's torpedo boats and destroyers were training in the Baltic Sea.

At 02:34 on 27 August, the destroyer Z3 Max Schultz accidentally rammed the darkened Tiger, which sank at 03:13 with two men dead and six wounded.