HMS TIGER IN DOCK 20

HMS TIGER A BRITISH BATTLECRUISER 1914

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Operators: United Kingdom
Preceded by: HMS Queen Mary
Succeeded by: Renown class
Built: 1912–14
In commission: 1914–31
Completed: 1
Scrapped: 1

History

Name: Tiger
Builder: John Brown and Company, Clydebank
Cost: £2,593,100, including guns
Laid down: 20 June 1912
Launched: 15 December 1913
Commissioned: 3 October 1914
Decommissioned: 15 May 1931

Fate: Sold for scrap, February 1932

General characteristics

Type: Battlecruiser

Displacement:

28,500 long tons (29,000 t) (normal)
33,260 long tons (33,790 t) (deep load)

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:

85,000 shp (63,000 kW)
39 × water-tube boilers

Propulsion: 4 × shafts, 2 × Direct-drive steam turbine sets

Speed: 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)

Complement:

1,112 (September 1914)
1,459 (April 1918)

Armament:

4 × 2 – 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns
12 × 1 – 6-inch (152 mm) guns
2 × 1 – 3-inch (76 mm) AA guns
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

Armour:

Belt: 3–9 in (76–229 mm)
Deck: 1 to 3 in (25 to 76 mm)
Bulkheads: 4 in (102 mm)
Barbettes: 8 to 9 in (203 to 229 mm)
Casemates: 6 in (152 mm)
Turrets: 9 in (229 mm)
Conning Tower: 10 in (254 mm)

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