Standard displacement hides Tiger's full-load scale

Tiger's 28,500-ton figure is treated here as standard displacement because that is how Britain declared it for the Washington treaty, despite its being labeled normal displacement elsewhere. The argument notes Britain's incentive to keep the declared figure low as a reason to question those alternative descriptions. Adding the 3,000-ton reconstruction allowance would bring the proposed standard displacement to 31,500 tons. Fuel and feed water fall outside standard displacement. A separate calculation starts with the original 28,500-ton figure, adds about 7,000 tons of coal and fuel oil to reach 35,500, then adds feed water to estimate roughly 39,000 to 40,000 tons at full load. For comparison, Renown and Repulse are given as 26,500 tons standard, the Queen Elizabeth class as 27,500, and the R class as 25,750. On those figures, the rebuilt Tiger would remain smaller than Hood but exceed the standard displacement of the other retained British capital ships.