View source for Centurion Class Battleship (1892)

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| {{Template:UK-Barfleur}}
|[[Chatham Royal Dockyard]]
|12 Oct, 1890
|10 Aug, 1892
|18 Jul, 1894
|Sold 12 Jul, 1910
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|[[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]]
|30 Mar, 1890
|3 Aug, 1892
|14 Feb, 1894
|Sold 12 Jul, 1910
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==Armament==
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===Main Battery===

===Secondary Battery===

===Other Guns===
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===Torpedoes===
Originally, there were five above-water and two submerged 18-in tubes:{{ARTS1891|pp. 38-9}}{{UKTorpM1909III|p. 265}}
* four above-water fixed broadside tubes at corners of armoured citadel, two at 50 degrees abaft the beam, and two at 42 degrees ahead, all horizontal.
* one above water fixed tube astern, horizontal.
* two submerged broadside forward, depressed 1 degree and angled directly abeam; axis of tube was 9 foot 5 inches below load water line and 2 foot 4 inches above the deck.

By 1909, the above water tubes had all been removed.

==Fire Control==
Though it may have little relevance given the age difference, the general system of wiring between the TSes in ships prior to [[Lord Nelson Class Battleship (1906)|''Lord Nelson'' class]] is illustrated in ''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914''{{HFCI1914|p. 50 & Plates 50 and 54(I)}}.  

===Rangefinders===

===Evershed Bearing Indicators===
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.{{INF}}

===Directors===
These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries<ref>''Director Firing Handbook, 1917'', pp. 142-3.</ref>.

===Gunnery Control===

===Local Control in Turrets===
There was no provision in these ships for local turret control wherein the receivers in the turret could be driven by transmitters in the officer's position at the back of the turret{{HFCI1914|p. 50}}.

===Transmitting Stations===

===Dreyer Table===
These ships never received Dreyer tables{{DreyerH|p. 3}}.

===Fire Control Instruments===
In 1906, it was planned to equip ''Centurion'' with Siemens Mark II equipment throughout, but she is absent from a list of ships so equipped in a 1914 source.{{ARTS1906|p. 82}}{{HFCI1914|p. 72}}  No reference to similar plans for ''Barfleur'' have been located.

===Torpedo Control===

==See Also==
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{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_class_battleship}}
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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*{{HFCI1914}}
*{{ARTS1906}}
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