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How five Tiger-class cruisers could have survived longer

A five-ship Tiger class would be harder to eliminate as a capability and might leave a converted cruiser available as a Falklands command ship.

Question

How would five Tiger-class cruisers have been used and how long might they have lasted?

Short answer

The larger class could preserve guns, support, and several active hulls long enough for one to serve as a Falklands-era command ship.

Notes

A larger class spreads support costs and makes continued ammunition and maintenance arrangements more defensible. Instead of shrinking rapidly from three ships to two and then none, five hulls might decline to a still-useful core of three. One could plausibly remain available into the Falklands era. Such a survivor might have served as Michael Clapp's command ship, illustrating how class size changes the options available decades later.