Tiger Class Cruiser
The Tiger-class cruisers were the last cruisers built for the Royal Navy. They were originally designed to be Minotaur-class light cruisers, but they were laid down as World War II was ending, and accordingly only three were completed. Three other ships of the Minotaur class had their construction either suspended or cancelled in 1946; two more were broken up. Of the suspended Minotaurs, Bellerophon was completed as Tiger, the name ship of the new Tiger class, Blake was completed under her own name, and Defence was completed as Lion. Conversion of Blake and Tiger to helicopter cruisers in the 1960s left no money to convert Lion, and she was scrapped in 1975, after 8 years in reserve. These ships were the first and last helicopter cruisers to serve in the Royal Navy. By 1979 the last of them had been withdrawn from service.
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