WORLD OF WARSHIPS BATTLECRUISER HMS TIGER 1914

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HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. The ship was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of the First World War in 1914, but was not yet ready for service. The ship was assigned to the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (1st BCS) for the duration of the war and participated in the Battle of Dogger Bank in early 1915, though she was still shaking down and did not perform well. Tiger next participated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, where she was only lightly damaged despite suffering many hits by German shells. Apart from providing distant cover during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, she spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols in the North Sea.
The ship was the oldest battlecruiser retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922. She became a gunnery training ship in 1924 and then joined the Battlecruiser Squadron in 1929 when its flagship, Hood, underwent a lengthy refit. Upon Hood's return to service in 1931, Tiger was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1932 in accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Displacement
28,500 long tons (29,000 t) (normal)
Length
704 ft (214.6 m) (o/a)
Beam
90 ft 6 in (27.6 m)
Draught
32 ft 5 in (9.9 m)
Installed power
39 × water-tube boilers
85,000 shp (63,000 kW)
Propulsion
4 × shafts; 2 × steam turbine sets
Speed
28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Complement
1,112 (September 1914)
Armament
4 × twin 13.5 in (343 mm) guns
12 × single 6 in (152 mm) guns
2 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA guns
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour
Belt: 3–9 in (76–229 mm)
Deck: 1 to 3 in (25 to 76 mm)
Barbettes: 8 to 9 in (203 to 229 mm)
Casemates: 6 in (152 mm)
Turrets: 9 in (229 mm)