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1/700 HMS Tiger (1916) Stern
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Tiger was the single battle cruiser counterpart ordered in 1911 alongside the Iron Duke class superdreadnoughts. She was very much an incremental development of the 1909 Lion class design, and a further evolution of the already slightly modified Queen Mary.
The ship was just about 1 mt longer than the Splendid Cats, with top speed raised by half a knot to 28 kn. Tiger retained the same main battery calibre and layout of four twin 13.5'' turrets, two forward, one amidships abaft the funnels, and one at the stern. As opposed to the Lions and Queen Mary, a different approach was taken with Tiger while still keeping the third turret as far away as possible to the rearmost one: while in the other three ships an extensive superstructure with secondary guns was provided along with a secondary command position, in Tiger the entire structure was removed, keeping just the aft conning tower, clearing the arcs of fire of Q turret to the entire stern quarter (as opposed to just broadsides in the previous designs.
The secondary battery was dropped from 16 to 12 6'' guns, all arranged in the minimal superstructure with a single tripod forward, a very distinctive visual trait of the ship. A small mainmast will be added in 1918.
Tiger was commissioned in October 1914 and took part in the Dogger Bank chase, helping sinking Blucher, and at Jutland was subjected to very heavy fire, being hit by 21 shells of all calibres without suffering significant damage, living proof that armour protection in British battle cruisers was not deficient, but instead powder handling procedures were rendered unsafe as ordered by the Battle Cruiser Squadron commander, Rear Admiral Beatty.
The rest of the war for the ship was spent patrolling the North Sea; in 1919 a flying off platform was added on top of Q turret, the following year colliding with the battleship Royal Sovereign. Placed in reserve in 1921, she was the only pre-war battle cruiser to survive the Washington Treaty cuts, and was refitted in 1922 with a new, larger rangefinder on X turret, the two single 3'' AA guns being substituted for four newer 4'' mounts, with the flying off platform removed, reentering service in 1924 as a training ship.
Although still in good condition at the turn of the decade, Tiger was nonetheless discarded at the London Naval Treaty due to further limitations in overall tonnage per country. The ship was kept until Hood came out of refit in 1931 and was subsequently scrapped in 1932.
The ship was just about 1 mt longer than the Splendid Cats, with top speed raised by half a knot to 28 kn. Tiger retained the same main battery calibre and layout of four twin 13.5'' turrets, two forward, one amidships abaft the funnels, and one at the stern. As opposed to the Lions and Queen Mary, a different approach was taken with Tiger while still keeping the third turret as far away as possible to the rearmost one: while in the other three ships an extensive superstructure with secondary guns was provided along with a secondary command position, in Tiger the entire structure was removed, keeping just the aft conning tower, clearing the arcs of fire of Q turret to the entire stern quarter (as opposed to just broadsides in the previous designs.
The secondary battery was dropped from 16 to 12 6'' guns, all arranged in the minimal superstructure with a single tripod forward, a very distinctive visual trait of the ship. A small mainmast will be added in 1918.
Tiger was commissioned in October 1914 and took part in the Dogger Bank chase, helping sinking Blucher, and at Jutland was subjected to very heavy fire, being hit by 21 shells of all calibres without suffering significant damage, living proof that armour protection in British battle cruisers was not deficient, but instead powder handling procedures were rendered unsafe as ordered by the Battle Cruiser Squadron commander, Rear Admiral Beatty.
The rest of the war for the ship was spent patrolling the North Sea; in 1919 a flying off platform was added on top of Q turret, the following year colliding with the battleship Royal Sovereign. Placed in reserve in 1921, she was the only pre-war battle cruiser to survive the Washington Treaty cuts, and was refitted in 1922 with a new, larger rangefinder on X turret, the two single 3'' AA guns being substituted for four newer 4'' mounts, with the flying off platform removed, reentering service in 1924 as a training ship.
Although still in good condition at the turn of the decade, Tiger was nonetheless discarded at the London Naval Treaty due to further limitations in overall tonnage per country. The ship was kept until Hood came out of refit in 1931 and was subsequently scrapped in 1932.
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