Post-war Service
Tiger remained in service with the Royal Navy after the Armistice with Germany and collided with the battleship Royal Sovereign in late 1920 while assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. She survived the culling of older capital ships following the Washington Naval Treaty, although she was placed in reserve on 22 August 1921. In 1919 a flying-off platform was added on 'B' turret's roof. The ship was refitted in March 1922 with a 25-foot (7.6 m) rangefinder fitted on 'X' turret, her original pair of 3-inch AA guns replaced by four 4-inch (100 mm) guns, and the flying-off platform on 'Q' turret was removed. On 14 February 1924, she was recommissioned and became a sea-going training ship, a role she served in throughout the 1920s. Her last major period of activity came in 1929, when the Royal Navy's newest battlecruiser, the ill-fated Hood, went into dockyard hands for a refit. While Hood was out of commission, Tiger returned to active service to keep the Royal Navy's three-ship Battlecruiser Squadron (normally made up of Hood plus the smaller Renown and Repulse) up to strength. Although by the 1930s Tiger was still in fair condition and was not a terribly old ship, her death knell was sounded by the London Naval Conference of 1930, during which Tiger was sacrificed by the Admiralty as part of an overall reduction in world battleship fleets. Under the command of Captain Kenneth Dewar from 1928 to 1929, her final commander was Arthur Bedford, and she remained in service with the fleet until Hood came out of refit in early 1931, at which time she was taken out of commission in accordance with the terms of the London Naval Treaty.
Tiger took the cheers of the Atlantic Fleet on 30 March 1931 at Devonport. She paid off for the last time on 15 May 1931 at Rosyth, before being sold to T. W. Ward of Inverkeithing for breaking up in February 1932. She was the last of the Royal Navy's coal-burning capital ships.
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