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[[File:ARTS1914Plate18.jpg|thumb|400px| '''Crace's Change of Bearing Instrument'''<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School'', 1914, Plate 18.</ref>]]  
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'''Crace's Change of Bearing Instrument''' was a [[Torpedo Control]] instrument conceived by a Lt. Crace of [[H.M.A.S. Australia (19XX)|''Australia'']] to determine the bearing rate of a target so that the deflection can be computed to set a [[Torpedo Director]].<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School'', 1914, p. 32.</ref>
'''Crace's Change of Bearing Instrument''' was a [[Torpedo Control]] instrument conceived by a Lt. Crace of {{AU-Australia|f=p}} to determine the bearing rate of a target so that the deflection can be computed to set a [[Torpedo Director]].<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School'', 1914, p. 32.</ref>


==Instrument==
==Instrument==

Revision as of 20:38, 23 April 2015

Crace's Change of Bearing Instrument[1]

Crace's Change of Bearing Instrument was a Torpedo Control instrument conceived by a Lt. Crace of H.M.A.S. Australia to determine the bearing rate of a target so that the deflection can be computed to set a Torpedo Director.[2]

Instrument

It used a special telescope atop a gyro compass receiver. The telescope had crosswires and a prism in it that permitted the operator to simultaneously observe the target beneath a 5 degree arc of the gyro compass card below. The operator worked a training gear to keep the crosshairs on target and call out the bearing to a second man. This second number was equipped with a circular slide rule and also received ranges by voicepipe.

Sliderule

The sliderule had two discs:[3]

  • the inner one had OwnSpeed * sin(Bearing)
  • the outer one (pi * Range) / (100 * TimeIntervalBetweenBearings)

The result would be the Torpedo Deflection to passed by Navyphone to the director position.

Experience

By late 1914, it was determined that sufficient practice gave good results, but the amount of calculation required seemed worrisome.[4]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914, Plate 18.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914, pp. 32-33. I am inferring that "S" given in the source document represents "Own Speed".
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914, p. 33.

Bibliography

  • H.M.S. Vernon. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1914. Copy 5 at The National Archives. ADM 189/34.
  • H.M.S. Vernon. (Jan 1916) Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. C.B. 1166. Copy 1025 at The National Archives. ADM 189/35.
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1917). Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916. C.B. 302. Copy No. 141 at The National Archives. ADM 186/381.

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