Minotaur Class Cruiser (1906)
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The three armoured cruisers of the Minotaur Class were completed in 1908 and 1909.
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Directors
Plans to outfit these ships with directors started in early 1915 but were slow to execute. Defence was lost before receiving hers, and the other Minotaur and Shannon received theirs in August and October 1918, respectively.[1]
Main Battery
Secondary Battery
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no Dreyer table.[2]
Fire Control Instruments
The ships in this class primarily used Barr and Stroud Mark II Fire Control Instruments.
The Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909 lists their equipment as:[3]
- Combined Range, Order, Deflection: 8 transmitters, 40 receivers
- Group Switches: 4
- Rate: 4 transmitters, 12 receivers
- Bearing: none
- Range: none
Additionally, this class had the following Siemens fire control equipment:[4]
- Turret fire gongs: 26 with 8 keys
- Fire Gongs: 8 with 2 keys
- Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 16 with 1 key
None of the ships had Target Visible or Gun Ready signals.[5]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
- ↑ absent from table in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, p. 58.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, p. 58.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 11.
Bibliography
- Template:BibConways1906-1921
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1914). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. G. 01627/14. C.B. 1030. Copy 1235 at The National Archives. ADM 186/191.
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
