just before Repulse and Renown... very much like them in fact... only one of this class... closer to Kongo which the Japanese had built in the UK... made Royal Navy mad that their builders built better ship than they had so the Tiger was built
HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, and launched in 1913. Tiger was the most heavily armoured battlecruiser of the Royal Navy at the start of World War I
Displacement:
33,677 tons full load
Length: 704 ft (215 m)
Beam: 90.6 ft (27.6 m)
Draught: 28.5 ft (8.7 m)
Propulsion: 4 shaft Brown-Curtis turbines, 85,000 shp
Speed: 28 knots
Complement: 1,109
Armament: 8 × 13.5 inch (343 mm) Mk V naval guns
12 × 6 in 152 mm Mk VII guns
2 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft guns
4 × 3 lb guns
4 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour: Belt: 9 inch
Bulkheads: 5 in
Barbettes: 9 in
Turrets: 9 in
Decks: 3 in
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