Four American Tigers with 16-inch guns before the First World War

What if the United States ordered four Tiger-style battlecruisers in 1913?

They would probably carry 16-inch guns, create an early Lexington-like threat, and make the Washington Treaty building holiday much harder to negotiate.

The scenario gives the United States four Tiger-style battlecruisers ordered in 1913. Congress would be expected to demand the largest available guns, producing a Tiger-like ship with sixteen-inch weapons. That combination invites comparison with the later Lexington proposals. If all four ships reached the Washington Conference, the American sixteen-inch force could rise to about seven ships. Britain might then resist the building holiday or seek different allowances. Both the armament choice and treaty response remain conditional judgments about the altered programme.