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• British Director Firing Systems
  ...esources and opportunity permitted this system inspired less comprehensive systems suitable to cruisers, flotilla leaders and eventually event destroyers. ==Tripod Director System==
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• Director Firing
  ...nd often firing) of a number of guns. It relies upon a [[Gunnery Director|director]] situated high above the deck to place sights on the target and determine Some precocious and partial examples of director firing, at least in part, extend back into the 19th century. Results were often m
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• British Director Firing Systems
  ...esources and opportunity permitted this system inspired less comprehensive systems suitable to cruisers, flotilla leaders and eventually event destroyers. ==Tripod Director System==
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• British Tripod Director Firing System
  The '''Tripod Director''' was the first British gunnery director generally deployed, and the one on which its capital ships relied during th ...hips featuring both types, the light aloft director was deemed the primary director in recognition of its higher placement in the ship and the presumably bette
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• Tilt
  ...cal of a shipboard fitting (such as a gun mounting or a [[Gunnery Director|director]]) and that of an idealized reference plane for the ship. These small impe Generally, tilt was only a problem when one instrument (such as a director) had to communicate an angular reading to another fitting (such as a gun mo
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• British Destroyer Director Firing System
  ...:UKDirectorFiringDestroyers1918FigurePage12-13.jpg|thumb|480px|'''Director Firing System (sans Henderson Gear) c. 1918'''{{UKDirectorFiringDestroyers1918|Fig ...g in the Royal Navy's [[British Tripod Director Firing System|capital ship director system]].
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• Change-over Switch
  ...e "group switches" supporting data circuits for allowing alternate control systems.{{ARTS1905|p. 73 and Plate XXIV}} I am appalled to see I did not image the ...multiple [[Gunnery Director|directors]] and/or TSes wished to switch which director or TS was to be used.
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• Open Director Sight
  ...ck use by a turret's Officer of Quarters when telescopic director sighting systems might have difficulty finding the target in haze or poor light. ...lace [[Directing Gun|directing guns]] as an alternative to proper director systems.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships'', p. 19.<
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• British Adoption of Director Firing
  The Royal Navy's adoption of the director occurred in a blizzard of activity immediately prior to the war and through ...gger firing more than just its single weapon, those other weapons involved firing at a fixed elevation as the sights rolled on. There is no mention of angle
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• Derfflinger Class Battlecruiser (1913)
  ...dered the information "absolutely reliable".<ref name=onip1>''Fire Control Systems, German Navy 1918-20'', p. 1.</ref> The German director system was very similar to a target bearing indicator.
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• Sim:Main Page
  ===Torpedo Aiming Systems=== ...Navy used from the 1880s to 1915. The first video demonstrates how such a director works when placed on the torpedo tube, and the second illustrates how it ca
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• Edward Altham
  ...s first installations of [[British Director Firing Systems|Director Firing systems]] in the dreadnoughts that would soon fight in the [[Great War]]. ...12 and 1913, he was involved in evaluation and testing of the new director firing gear in {{UK-1Neptune}} and {{UK-Thunderer}}. On 16 January, 1913, the Adm
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• Follow-the-Pointer
  '''Follow-the-Pointer''' (abbreviated as F.T.P. and less often as F.P.) systems were composite data receivers and settable inputs by which a remotely-signa ...08)|''Boadicea'']] for the gear-worked sights on her 4-in guns. Soon, the systems were in universal use by ships with cam-worked sights on guns ranging from
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• "V" Class Flotilla Leader (1917)
  In 1918, it was ordered that those destroyers with director installations were to additionally receive:{{ARTS1918|p. 376. (C.I.O. 1081/ * a voice pipe from {{TS}} to director
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• British Fire Control Systems at Jutland
  ...orians who have not closely studied the technical function of fire control systems on the strengths and weaknesses in British gunnery are inappropriate. ...ts, not every ship used its director all the time, some few ships lacked a director, some ships lacked a Dreyer table, others used different types of Dreyer ta
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• "S" Class Destroyer (1918)
  [[File:ARTS1917Plate100.jpg|thumb|480px|'''Firing Circuits'''{{ARTS1917|Plate100}}]] ...1918, but those vessels completed after February were then having training systems in place upon their delivery, and from May they had their mechanical elevat
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• Caroline Class Cruiser (1914)
  ...the original limit of 15 degrees, as the ships were refitted for director firing in late 1917-1918.<ref>''Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1914-1918", p. 10.</ref ...r firing arrangements to permit mixed calibres to be commanded by the same director proved less than desireable, and this prompted a decision in mid-1918 to re
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• "V" Class Destroyer (1917)
  ...rt and starboard pairs. The chart table jutted out from the bridge, and a director was fitted. A panel with torpedo control instruments was also sited on the ...eflection receivers for their 3-in H.A. guns and fire gongs worked off the firing key used for the ships' L.A. weaponry.{{ARTS1918|p. 376. (C.I.O. 11/18, G.
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• Cambrian Class Cruiser (1915)
  ...the original limit of 15 degrees, as the ships were refitted for director firing in late 1917-1918.{{UKProgressInNavalGunnery1914-1918|p. 10}}{{UKTHVol4Part ...r-firing arrangements to permit mixed calibres to be commanded by the same director proved less than desireable, and this prompted a decision in mid-1918 to re
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• Renown Class Battlecruiser (1916)
  In 1917, these tubes were firing {{Torp|21-in Mark II*****|UK}}es.{{ARTS1917|p. 61}} ** Forward 4-in director tower (fed from line feeding the spotting top's 3334s)
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• British Gunsights
  ...of red or white could be shone on the open fore and back sights for night firing. {{FTP}} systems were introduced in the 4-in P. IV guns being provided the latest light crui
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