Weymouth Class Cruiser (1910)

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The four Light Cruisers of the Weymouth Class (sometimes called Improved Bristol Class, or referred to as the Weymouth subclass of the Town Class) were completed by 1912. They consolidated the mixed battery of the Bristol class into a uniform battery of eight 6-in guns.

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

Main Battery

Secondary Battery

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[1]

Shipwide Network

In 1909, it was planned that all four ships in this class were to be completed with the latest Vickers Mark II F.T.P. Fire Control Instruments as follows:[2]

  • Range Transmitters: 2
  • Deflection Transmitters: 2
  • Range Receivers: 8
  • Deflection Receivers: 8
  • C.O.S.: none
  • Vickers Fire Gongs: 8 with 2 keys

None of the ships had Target Visible or Gun Ready signals.[3]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  2. Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, pp. 57, 60.
  3. Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 11.

Bibliography

Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918

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