Should HMS Tiger have replaced Iron Duke as the Royal Navy's gunnery training ship?
Short answerTiger could have modernized well, but training-ship status would probably prevent the boiler reconstruction needed to make her a valuable fast wartime unit.
NotesRetaining HMS Tiger as a training ship instead of Iron Duke could preserve a useful fast hull. A rebuild with late-1920s or early-1930s small-tube boilers had genuine potential. Training status would also make such an expensive propulsion modernization less likely. Without it, the navy would enter the next war with an older First World War battlecruiser rather than the fast reconstructed capital ship imagined by the counterfactual.