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When the system detected an unsafe firing condition, a loud audible alarm from a warning trumpet would sound in the endangering turret, and it was to be taken to mean, "Don't fire!" A visual indication would accompany the sound. | When the system detected an unsafe firing condition, a loud audible alarm from a warning trumpet would sound in the endangering turret, and it was to be taken to mean, "Don't fire!" A visual indication would accompany the sound. | ||
<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', p. 53.</ref> | <ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', p. 53.</ref> | ||
It was widely deployed until the ''Iron Duke'' class inaugurated Kilroy's more assertive [[Danger Zone Fire Control]] system which locked the firing triggers when trouble was likely.<ref>''Handbook of Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 59.</ref> The successor technology was probably used thereafter.{{INF}} | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
Revision as of 14:48, 19 April 2012
Kilroy's Danger Signal was an automated system to detect and signal when the blast from one turret's guns might endanger the guns of another turret based on their present training and elevation angles.
It was one of several contributions of Willie Dickson Kilroy, an inventor and officer in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.
When the system detected an unsafe firing condition, a loud audible alarm from a warning trumpet would sound in the endangering turret, and it was to be taken to mean, "Don't fire!" A visual indication would accompany the sound. [2]
It was widely deployed until the Iron Duke class inaugurated Kilroy's more assertive Danger Zone Fire Control system which locked the firing triggers when trouble was likely.[3] The successor technology was probably used thereafter.[Inference]
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Footnotes
Bibliography
- 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.
