The wreck of HMS Tiger, a Royal Navy destroyer cut in two during a catastrophic collision in 1908, has been located on the seabed of the English Channel 118 years after it sank. The 400-tonne vessel was on a night exercise in April 1908 when it strayed into the path of the much larger cruiser HMS Berwick, which sliced through it; the ship went down with the loss of 35 crew members. The find brings closure to one of the Edwardian Royal Navy's most notorious peacetime disasters, which had long been sought by naval historians and wreck hunters.

The collision occurred about 20 miles south of the Isle of Wight and involved HMS Berwick, a 10,000-tonne cruiser vastly outweighing the Tiger, which had been launched at Clydebank in 1900. The tragedy was first reported by the Daily Mail at the time, prompting debate in Parliament and an expression of sympathy from King Edward VII. The wreck had remained undiscovered on the Channel floor for more than a century until divers recently located it.