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[[Rear-Admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] {{SIR}} '''Patrick Macnamara''', K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy (11 January, 1886 – 4 April, 1957) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. | [[Rear-Admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] {{SIR}} '''Patrick Macnamara''', K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy (11 January, 1886 – 4 April, 1957) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. | ||
| − | He was Gunnery Officer of [[H.M.S. Tiger (1913)|H.M.S. ''Tiger'']] | + | He was Gunnery Officer of [[H.M.S. Tiger (1913)|H.M.S. ''Tiger'']] from March, 1915 to June, 1919, as well as Executive Officer from 1918 to 1919. |
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| + | He invented some fire control aids, such as a time-of-flight watch (presumably, as an aid to spotting) around 1909, deployed perhaps by 1911,<ref>''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', pp. 56, 63.</ref> and was trying to effect a pneumatic device so [[Mark IV Dreyer Fire Control Table|Mark IV Dreyer tables]] could automatically plot range cuts signaled from multiple sources,<ref>''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', p. 171.</ref> although the effort was seemingly never adopted and a manually-worked typewriter employed instead. | ||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
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==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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*"Rear-Admiral Macnamara" (Obituaries). ''The Times''. Monday, 8 April, 1957. Issue '''53810''', col A, pg. 14. | *"Rear-Admiral Macnamara" (Obituaries). ''The Times''. Monday, 8 April, 1957. Issue '''53810''', col A, pg. 14. | ||
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Revision as of 03:57, 26 January 2011
Rear-Admiral SIR Patrick Macnamara, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy (11 January, 1886 – 4 April, 1957) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
He was Gunnery Officer of H.M.S. Tiger from March, 1915 to June, 1919, as well as Executive Officer from 1918 to 1919.
He invented some fire control aids, such as a time-of-flight watch (presumably, as an aid to spotting) around 1909, deployed perhaps by 1911,[1] and was trying to effect a pneumatic device so Mark IV Dreyer tables could automatically plot range cuts signaled from multiple sources,[2] although the effort was seemingly never adopted and a manually-worked typewriter employed instead.
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Template:BibBrooksDreadnoughtGunnery
- "Rear-Admiral Macnamara" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 8 April, 1957. Issue 53810, col A, pg. 14.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/50.
