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A conventional 1915 battlecruiser develops Tiger and Renown

A missing-design reconstruction uses the progression from Lion and Queen Mary through Tiger and Renown to estimate a wartime successor.

Question

Would a conventional 1915-1916 British battlecruiser be an enlarged Renown or an early Admiral type?

Short answer

It would likely combine Tiger's four-turret lineage with Renown-era machinery and armament in a roughly 31,000-32,000-ton design.

Notes

Four turrets in an AB-plus-aft arrangement would produce a hull that looks more like a scaled Tiger than a direct battleship adaptation. Extrapolating the steady displacement growth places the conventional successor around 31,000 tons normal load.