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Revision as of 01:16, 10 May 2011
The four light cruisers of the Weymouth Class (sometimes called Improved Bristol Class, or referred to as the Weymouth subclass of the Town Class) were completed by 1912. They consolidated the mixed battery of the Bristol class into a uniform battery of eight 6-in guns.
Armament
Guns
- Eight 6-in guns; 3 on each broadside and 2 on CL fore and aft
Torpedoes
The ships had two 21-in submerged broadside tubes forward depressed 2 degrees, 4 feet 7 inches below load waterline with the axis of the tube 1 foot 5 inches above the deck.[1]
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
This equipment was unlikely to have been fitted for gun or searchlight control.[2]
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
Main Battery
In 1916, it was approved that the ships of this class should be retrofitted with directors as time, resources and opportunity permitted.[3]
Secondary Battery
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
There was a T.S. forward.[4]
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[5]
Fire Control Instruments
In 1909, it was planned that all four ships in this class were to be completed with the latest Vickers Mark II F.T.P. Fire Control Instruments, but soon after Mark III is indicated, as follows:[6][7][8]
- Range Transmitters: 2 (P & S)
- Deflection Transmitters: 2 (P & S)
- Range Receivers: 8
- Deflection Receivers: 8
- C.O.S.: none
- Vickers Fire Gongs: 8 with 2 keys
By 1915, a 4-way C.O.S. had been added to permit some freedom in assigning the CL guns to either broadside group:[9]
- both on port
- both on starboard
- fore on port, aft on starboard
- aft on port, fore on starboard
In addition, navyphones addressing telaupads at the guns supported a finer control by breaking each broadside down into 2 groups, fore and aft. 3-way change-over (fore, after, separate) switches dictated which navyphones addressed which guns. The aft navyphones were in the aft control platform. The fore navyphones could be either in the fore control platform or plugged in in the TS.[10]
The CL guns can be joined to either broadside battery by 2-way switches located in the TS and the control platforms (when the control platform switches are used, the TS switches are left "off". In the other case, plugs were removed at the control platform switches).[11]
None of the ships had Target Visible or Gun Ready signals.[12]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Addenda (1911) to Torpedo Manual, Vol. III., 1909, p. 155.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 175.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 65.
- ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, pp. 57, 60.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 65.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1910, p. 148.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 65.
- ↑ I'm not 1000% sure I understand this description, either.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 65.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 11.
Bibliography
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1914). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. G. 01627/14. C.B. 1030. Copy 1235 at The National Archives. ADM 186/191.
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