Duke of Edinburgh Class Cruiser (1904)
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The two Armoured Cruisers of the Duke of Edinburgh Class were completed in 1906.
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.[Inference]
Directors
Plans to outfit these ships with directors were slow to execute. Duke of Edinburgh received one in October 1918, but Black Prince was likely lost before her equipment was ever ordered.[1][Inference]
Gunnery Control
Local Control in Turrets
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships never received Dreyer tables.[2]
Fire Control Instruments
By 1909, both ships were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments as follows:[3]
- Vickers range transmitters: 10
- Vickers deflection transmitters: 10
- Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 33
- Vickers C.O.S.: 5
- Vickers Check fire switches: 10
- Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
- Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8
- Siemens turret fire gongs: 12 with 6 keys
- Vickers fire gongs: 10 with 4 keys
- Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 16 (16 in Duke of Edinburgh) with 1 key (supplier not stated)
These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[4]
Torpedo Control
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- 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:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
