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[[File:MysteryDeviceInBritishSpottingTop.jpg|thumb|240px|'''Kilroy's Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter'''<br>This may be such a device, or an Evershed transmitter.]]
[[File:MysteryDeviceInBritishSpottingTop.jpg|thumb|240px|'''Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter'''<br>Or possibly an Evershed or Elliott bearing transmitter.]]
   
   
The '''Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter''' was designed by {{LieutRN}} [[Willie Dickson Kilroy|W. D. Kilroy]] to ensure that the [[Spotting Officer|spotting officer]] was watching the same target as was being fired upon by his own ship.
The '''Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter''' was designed by {{LieutRN}} [[Willie Dickson Kilroy|W. D. Kilroy]] to ensure that the [[Spotting Officer|spotting officer]] was watching the same target as was being fired upon by his own ship.

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Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter
Or possibly an Evershed or Elliott bearing transmitter.

The Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter was designed by Lieutenant W. D. Kilroy to ensure that the spotting officer was watching the same target as was being fired upon by his own ship.

Mark I

Main article

The need for these instruments was envisioned in early 1916. It seems likely that supply commenced in late 1916 at the earliest.[1] The first version was deployed in 22 of the earlier dreadnoughts and battlecruisers.[2]

Mark II

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This device is detailed in Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920.[3] Supply of these to the latest capital ships commenced in the early months of 1919,[4] and by 1920, 22 had been equipped.[5]

Mark II*

Main article

This device is detailed in Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920.[6] Most often mounted in light cruisers from June 1918; an installation was generally a pair mounted on each side of the fore top.[7][8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 25.
  2. ↑ Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, pp. 35-37, Plates 45, 47, 49, 51.
  4. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 26.
  5. ↑ Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, p. 35.
  6. ↑ Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, pp. 37-39, Plates 52-55, 59, 60.
  7. ↑ Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, p. 37.
  8. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, pp. 26.

Bibliography

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