Tiger Class Light Cruiser

Tiger Class Light Cruiser 2019-10-14

The Tiger-class cruisers were the last class of all-gun cruisers completed for the British Royal Navy. They came from an order of 8 Minotaur-class cruisers in 1941-2; work on the second group of three ships was effectively suspended in mid 1944. The cruisers were finally completed, with new armament, after a very long delay entering service in the 1960s as the Tiger class.

Cancellation of other ship class designs due to post war austerity left the three hulls available for finishing but reconstructions were delayed by both the Korean War and Suez Crisis. By the time final approval was given to complete the Tiger cruisers in November 1954 as interim anti-aircraft cruisers with automatic 6-inch and 3-inch armament the hull and machinery of the cruisers was too dated. The effective replacement for the Tigers, the guided missile equipped County class destroyers were ordered less than two years later in 1956 and entered service only four years after HMS Tiger. The building of the Tigers was political as was retention as anti-submarine helicopters carriers. They maintained a few more large ships and command positions, allowing the institutional structure of the old carrier and cruiser navy to be preserved.

In the 1964s the Tigers were approved for conversion into helicopters carriers to plans that were rapidly upgraded from operating Westland Wessex helicopters for amphibious operations, to anti-submarine and command cruisers carrying four Westland Sea King helicopters. The conversion of HMS Blake and HMS Tiger from 1965-1972 was expensive and difficult; with limited manpower and resources and better ships for their roles it was not possible to justify their place in the fleet, and they were taken out of service in the late 1970s . Lion was scrapped by 1975 as a source of spares for her sisters. Return to service of Blake and Tiger was considered in the aftermath of the Falklands War but not proceeded with and the last RN cruisers were scrapped by 1986.

The file contains the unit and pcx files. Model is not my own creation. Wyrmshadow helped with the animation files. I merely put the pieces together and cleaned up the model for CivIII and added some what if pieces. A big thanks to everyone that helped out!
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