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==Fire Control Systems==
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===Rangefinders===
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===Directors===
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====Main Battery====
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The ships were completed without a director, but were eventually fitted with a geared tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun in 'Y' turret<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  pp. 88, 142.</ref>.  The battery was not divisible into groups for split director firing<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  p. 88.</ref>.
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====Secondary Battery====
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The 4-in guns never had directors installed<ref>absent from list in ''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  p. 143.</ref>.
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===Torpedo Control===
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===Transmitting Stations===
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Like all large British ships of the era prior to ''King George V'' and ''Queen Mary'', these ships had 2 [[T.S.|TSs]]<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', pp. 6-7.</ref>.
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===Dreyer Table===
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Each ship was eventually retro-fitted with a Mark I Dreyer table<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>, but was never given Dreyer Turret Control Tables<ref>absent from list in ''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>.  It appears reasonable to assume that ''Vanguard'' had a table fitted prior to her accidental loss.
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===Miscellaneous===
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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{{Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917}}
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{{Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918}}
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Revision as of 20:20, 15 August 2009

Fire Control Systems

Rangefinders

Directors

Main Battery

The ships were completed without a director, but were eventually fitted with a geared tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun in 'Y' turret[1]. The battery was not divisible into groups for split director firing[2].

Secondary Battery

The 4-in guns never had directors installed[3].

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Like all large British ships of the era prior to King George V and Queen Mary, these ships had 2 TSs[4].

Dreyer Table

Each ship was eventually retro-fitted with a Mark I Dreyer table[5], but was never given Dreyer Turret Control Tables[6]. It appears reasonable to assume that Vanguard had a table fitted prior to her accidental loss.

Miscellaneous

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 88, 142.
  2. ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 88.
  3. ↑ absent from list in The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 143.
  4. ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, pp. 6-7.
  5. ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  6. ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917 Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918

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