British Battlecruiser HMS Tiger

HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 15 December 1913 and commissioned on 3 October 1914. She was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of the First World War in 1914, but was not yet ready for service. Assigned to the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (1st BCS) for the duration of the war Tiger participated in the Battle of Dogger Bank in early 1915, though she was still shaking down and did not perform well. Tiger next participated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, where she was only lightly damaged despite suffering many hits by German shells. Apart from providing distant cover during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, she spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols in the North Sea.

The ship was the oldest battlecruiser retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922. She became a gunnery training ship in 1924 and then joined the Battlecruiser Squadron in 1929 when its flagship, Hood, underwent a lengthy refit. Upon Hood’s return to service in 1931, Tiger was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1932 in accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty of 1930.