A Tiger retained until 1937 is imagined receiving a major reconstruction with twin 14-inch guns, new machinery, revised armour, and stronger anti-aircraft protection. Keeping four turrets is one option; removing a turret could instead produce six guns in three twin mountings while freeing space for a speed increase. The later discussion suggests an early reconstruction could expose problems with the 14-inch guns before their use in more complicated quadruple mountings. A retained fourth battlecruiser would also give the Royal Navy another ship for operations against German surface forces. The example pairs Tiger with Renown off Norway, adding British firepower and forcing the Germans to divide their attention, while still allowing for a lucky hit on either British ship. The claim that only the nameplate and bell would survive is a joke about the scale of reconstruction. Both the design and the operational outcome remain hypothetical.
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A 1937 reconstruction for HMS Tiger
The survival of HMS Tiger becomes a compact design exercise in how an old battlecruiser might have been rebuilt for a later fleet.