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The four [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the '''Warrior Class''' were completed in 1906 and 1907. | The four [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the '''Warrior Class''' were completed in 1906 and 1907. | ||
==Armament== | |||
===Guns=== | |||
The 9.2-in guns were Mark X, on Mk V S mountings.<ref>''The Sight Manual, 1916'', p. 110.</ref> | |||
===Torpedoes=== | |||
==Fire Control== | ==Fire Control== | ||
Revision as of 14:59, 31 July 2011
The four armoured cruisers of the Warrior Class were completed in 1906 and 1907.
Armament
Guns
The 9.2-in guns were Mark X, on Mk V S mountings.[1]
Torpedoes
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.[Inference]
Directors
In 1916, it was approved that the 2 surviving ships of this class should be retrofitted with directors as time, resources and opportunity permitted,[2] but these ambitions were slow to execute. Achilles received one in October 1918, but the war ended before Cochrane received hers.[3]
Gunnery Control
Local Control in Turrets
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships never received Dreyer tables.[4]
Fire Control Instruments
By 1909, all 4 ships were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments as follows:[5]
- Vickers range transmitters: 10
- Vickers deflection transmitters: 10
- Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 31
- Vickers C.O.S.: 5
- Vickers Check fire switches: 10
- Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
- Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 12
- Siemens turret fire gongs: 20 with 10 keys
- Vickers fire gongs: none
- Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 10 with 1 key (supplier not stated)
As in the Minotaur class, bearing instruments were installed in or by 1915.[6] The centre line 9.2-in guns formed one group, and the mixed-caliber port and starboard broadsides two more. The receivers in the first group could be driven by a transmitter in the TS or switched to attend to either of two special Graham's type transmitters in the foretop.
The overall bill of fare ran to:
- 2 special bearing transmitters, Graham's type (in foretop, P&S)
- 3 Barr and Stroud bearing transmitters (2 in foretop P & S, 1 in fore TS)
- 15 bearing receivers:
- 10 in the turrets (1 each)
- 3 repeats in the fore TS
- 2 repeats in the foretop
- Three C.O.S. (one in fore TS, and two in foretop)
These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[7]
Torpedo Control
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Sight Manual, 1916, p. 110.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 175.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, pp. 56, 60.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 219.
- ↑ 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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