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===Rangefinders===
 
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Sometime during or after 1917, an additional 9-foot rangefinder was to be added aft  to augment torpedo control.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917'', p. 199. (possibly pertinent: C.I.O. 481/17)</ref>
  
 
===Evershed Bearing Indicators===
 
===Evershed Bearing Indicators===

Revision as of 19:38, 9 April 2011

The eight light cruisers of the Danae Class were completed between 1918 and 1922. An additional four planned ships were not completed.

Armament

Guns

The six 6-in guns on the centre-line had a maximum elevation of 30 degrees.[1]

Torpedoes

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Sometime during or after 1917, an additional 9-foot rangefinder was to be added aft to augment torpedo control.[2]

Evershed Bearing Indicators

These ships almost certainly had Evershed gear for gun control from delivery, and were the first new light cruisers to also feature Evershed installations for searchlight control.[3]

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.[4] The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting and may have been augmented by use of their 'X' gun as a directing gun as on the earlier Caledon class ships.[5]

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

Fire Control Instruments

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1914-1918", p. 10.
  2. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 199. (possibly pertinent: C.I.O. 481/17)
  3. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
  4. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
  5. Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p. 142 and plate opposite.

Bibliography

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