The Tiger Class Destroyer has had a muddled past. The ship was originally designed an escort vessel, which could free up the large Battlestars from convoy duty. At the same time, it was also design to be able to fight Basestars, all on a much smaller hull than a Gun- or Battlestar. It also had to be fast, and being an escort ship, had to be able to take care of itself without it is own escort.
All in all, a difficult task for any designer, and the ship underwent no less than three major revisions and countless minor design changes before the ship - as currently in service - entered duty.
Like most Colonial Ships, it is also a mess, and excels at no particular task well. Due to the design criteria, it was found that not all components in the desired amounts could be fitted into the hull size, and thus their capabilities were reduced. As a result, while the ship mounts an impressive array of heavy pulsar lasers, the original specification required more, and of the heavier types. As a compensation, the ship has two missile racks, although these seem to have been added as an after-thought as the ship has no missile storage facilities. For an escort ship to be successful, it must carry fighters, and it must carry them in sufficient quantities to be able to protect a convoy. Whilst the ship was never envisaged to rival a Battlestar in its fighter capacity, what it does carry is pitiful at most - a scant 8 Vipers and 2 Asps, not hardly enough for recon duty, let alone escort duty.
About the one thing that the ship does do well though, is move. Because the hull size limits the size of the engines, an awful lot of the ships internal space is set aside for large reactors - rivalling that on the Gunstars even. And when the ship does not have to use its engine power for weaponry, it can really move.
As a result of all this, the ships true role is something of confused mess. Neither powerful enough to take on Basestars alone, nor carrying enough fighters for proper escort duties, the ship has generally taken on the role of either a fast raider, or as a larger Destroyer.
Names:
Revenge, Intrepid, Valiant, Serapis
The Tiger was designed and drawn by the guys on the Newsflash Galactica website, SSD's designed by me and drawn by Sean Driscoll.
The Destroyer has one large shuttle bay. The bay has a launch tube ([J1.54] which will propel a fighter flight to speed 12 and will launch in direction 1 and a standard shuttle hatch (launching and landing in direction 4).
The shuttle bay is large enough to accept yachts.
The Destroyer has a hyperspeed multiplier of x1.
Colonial Tiger Class Destroyer boarding diagram:
