Were British battlecruisers designed to fight in the battle line?

Were British battlecruisers designed to fight in the battle line?

Most were designed around other roles, although a place in the battle line had become part of doctrine. Their speed also offered alternatives for attacking the enemy fleet from another direction.

A place in the battle line had become doctrinal, but most British battlecruisers had not been designed for a sustained fleet action. The Grand Fleet already had more dreadnought battleships than the Germans had dreadnoughts, battlecruisers, and pre-dreadnoughts combined. A proposed alternative was to let the Grand Fleet hold the High Seas Fleet while battlecruisers threatened its front or rear from another direction. In this interpretation, difficulties coordinating Beatty with Jellicoe helped keep the fast force close to the battle line. Those alternative manoeuvres were discussed and appeared possible given British numbers, but were not carried out. Within the video's classification, Tiger and Vanguard are the British battlecruisers whose original concepts came closest to including fleet action, although Tiger was still not fully armoured.