Danae Class Cruiser (1917)
The eight light cruisers of the Danae Class were completed between 1918 and 1922. An additional four planned ships were not completed.
Armament
Guns
Six 6-in guns on the centre-line had a maximum elevation of 30 degrees.[1]
Torpedoes
Four triple 21-in mounts, two each side, bearing 60-120 degrees.[2]
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Sometime during or after 1917, an additional 9-foot rangefinder was to be added aft to augment torpedo control.[3]
Evershed Bearing Indicators
These ships almost certainly had Evershed gear for gun control from delivery, and were the first new light cruisers to also feature Evershed installations for searchlight control.[4]
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.[5] The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting and may have been augmented by use of their 'X' gun as a directing gun as on the earlier Caledon class ships.[6]
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
Fire Control Instruments
[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]
Torpedo Control
In 1916, it was decided that all light cruisers of Bristol class and later should have torpedo firing keys (Pattern 2333) fitted on the fore bridge, in parallel with those in the CT, and that a flexible voice pipe be fitted between these positions.[7]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1914-1918", p. 10.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 35.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 199. (possibly pertinent: C.I.O. 481/17)
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p. 142 and plate opposite.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1916, p. 146.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
- Template:BibUKProgressInNavalGunnery1914-1918
