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The Lion class (HMS Lion, HMS Tiger and HMS Lynx) were a class of battlecruisers built for the British Royal Navy before World War I. Nicknamed the "Splendid Cats",[1] the ships were a significant improvement over their predecessors of the Indefatigable class in terms of speed, armament and armour. The Lion-class battlecruisers were 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph) faster, exchanged the 12-inch (305 mm) guns of the older ships for 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns in new triple turrets, she was the first ship in service with them (Dante Alighieri was started earlier but not finished first) designed to shorten the length of the magazines, and had a waterline armour belt 12(mags)-8(ER/BRs) inches thick versus the 6 inches of the Indefatigables. These improvements were in response to the German Moltke class, the first German battlecruisers, which were larger and more powerful than the first British battlecruisers of the Invincible class.


9 x 13.5" guns (3x3) rest as OTL

AM I weird for liking HMS Nelson ? Not that this look very nice but would be better than OTL ships.

I like the idea, early G3 design.

One of the things that looks slightly 'off' is the unevenly spaced funnels. If you can have the gaps the same that would please the eye more.

With the armour, I would keep it with the 9" belt over the propulsion systems as the Admiralty felt that the 9" armour would defeat the German 11-12" shells at normal battle ranges.

The wider triple turrets may require a slightly wider hull than the standard 88.5 feet of the originals.

Uhm there is a bit of rigging ending in mid-air between the bridge and forefunnel - may need a skyhook

Would probably not work - at least not according the high engineering standards of the RN. I really don't see how you'll fit the machinery plant in an efficient manner. It'd also, in all likelihood pitch quite dramatically and be a rather unruly gun-platform. Thank goodness something as ugly as this never materialized! (No critique of the artist though!) Also, why credit me? Please remind me again!

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Yes it was a nice idea but it does look Very Ugly !

Will fix belt and rigging, unevenly spaced funnels was due to putting BRs under bridge ?

YOU are on the original in the archive ! ?