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==Fire Control==
 
===Rangefinders===
 
===Evershed Bearing Indicators===
 
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.{{INF}}
 
===Directors===
 
These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries.<ref>''Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  pp. 142-3.</ref>
 
===Gunnery Control===
 
===Local Control in Turrets===
 
===Transmitting Stations===
 
===Dreyer Table===
 
These ships never received Dreyer tables.<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables''.  p. 3.</ref>
 
===Shipwide Network===
 
By 1909, both ships were equipped with [[Vickers|Vickers, Son and Maxim]] instruments for range, deflection and orders and with [[Barr and Stroud]] [[Range Rate|rate]] instruments as follows:<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909'', pp. 56, 60.</ref>
* Vickers range transmitters:  10
* Vickers deflection transmitters:  10
* Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 33
* Vickers C.O.S.: 5
* Vickers Check fire switches: 10
* Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
* Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8
* Siemens turret fire gongs: 12 with 6 keys
* Vickers fire gongs: 10 with 4 keys
* Captain's Cease Fire Bells:  16 (16 in ''Duke of Edinburgh'') with 1 key (supplier not stated)
 
These ships lacked ''Target Visible'' and ''Gun Ready'' signals.<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914''.  p. 11.</ref>
 
===Torpedo Control===
 
==See Also==
 
==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}
 
==Bibliography==
<small>
*{{BibUKHandbookFireControlInstruments1909}}
*{{BibUKHandbookFireControlInstruments1914}}
*{{BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917}}
*{{BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918}}
</small>
 
[[Category:Ship Class]]
[[Category:Ship Class of the Royal Navy]]
 
 
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Revision as of 19:23, 20 September 2009

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.[Inference]

Directors

These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries.[1]

Gunnery Control

Local Control in Turrets

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships never received Dreyer tables.[2]

Shipwide Network

By 1909, both ships were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments as follows:[3]

  • Vickers range transmitters: 10
  • Vickers deflection transmitters: 10
  • Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 33
  • Vickers C.O.S.: 5
  • Vickers Check fire switches: 10
  • Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
  • Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8
  • Siemens turret fire gongs: 12 with 6 keys
  • Vickers fire gongs: 10 with 4 keys
  • Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 16 (16 in Duke of Edinburgh) with 1 key (supplier not stated)

These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[4]

Torpedo Control

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 142-3.
  2. ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
  3. ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, pp. 56, 60.
  4. ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. p. 11.

Bibliography


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