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Originally, all vessels carried a mixed main battery:
 
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Revision as of 00:16, 16 February 2018

The nine Second-Class Cruisers of the Eclipse Class (sometimes referred to as the Talbot class) were completed for the Royal Navy between 1896 and 1898.

Binoculars

In September 1914, the ships were allowed four additional pairs of Pattern 343 Service Binoculars.[1]

Armament

Main Battery

Originally, all vessels carried a mixed main battery:

  • Five 6-in P.II Mountings for Q.F. Mark 2 Guns [2]

Torpedoes

Originally, there were three tubes:[3][4]

  • two submerged tubes with three torpedoes each and one (shared between them) for exercise, depressed 3 degrees and bearing abeam; axis of tube was 6 feet below load water line and 10 inches above the deck.
  • one stern tube with two torpedoes and one for exercise

All torpedoes would be stored at the submerged tubes except a single one stored at the stern tube.

In Talbot's trials, she was able to fire from submerged tubes with no deflection while running full speed. Her stern tube appears to have been above-water by design but was firing reliably even when full of water at speed, unlike the Apollo class which found this problematic the same year.[5]

By 1909, the stern tube had been removed.[6]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 331 of 8 Sep, 1914.
  2. Quarterly Appropriation List of Gun Mountings for B.L., Q.F, and Machine Guns, August 1914. The National Archives. ADM 186/195p.29.
  3. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1894. pp. 72-73.
  4. Torpedo Manual, Vol. III, 1909. p. 265.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. pp. 36, 37, 41.
  6. Torpedo Manual, Vol. III, 1909. p. 265.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.


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