HMS Tiger, Hood, and the value of oil firing

How did Tiger influence Hood, and what might Tiger have gained from Queen Elizabeth-style oil firing?

Oil firing could have made Tiger much faster, and a later rebuild might have made her useful, but Hood still embodied the battlecruiser concept rather than escaping its limits.

Oil firing on Queen Elizabeth lines could have pushed Tiger toward 30-32 knots, making the treaty-era choice to discard her much harder. A later rebuild could add modern machinery, King George V-type twin 14-inch turrets, and dual-purpose 4.5-inch secondaries. The 14-inch mountings would require some barbette work, but they were close enough to the existing 13.5-inch installation to avoid rebuilding the entire hull around them. In service, such a ship would resemble Renown and Repulse as a fast hunter of German surface raiders such as Admiral Graf Spee. Hood still represents the culmination of the battlecruiser idea rather than a ship outside the category.