Cressy Class Cruiser (1899)
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The six armoured cruisers of the Cressy Class were completed between 1901 and 1904.
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 never received Dreyer tables.[1]
Fire Control Instruments
By 1909, the 6 ships in this class were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments:[2]
- Vickers range transmitters: 6
- Vickers deflection transmitters: 6
- Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 23
- Vickers C.O.S.: 3
- Vickers Check fire switches: 6
- Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
- Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8
- Siemens Fire Gongs (turrets): 4 with 2 keys
- Vickers Fire Gongs (elsewhere): 12 with 4 keys
- Siemens Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 18 with 1 key
These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[3]
Radio
In 1901, while assigned to the China Squadron, Cressy was listed as having or slated to receive a "1 to 52" W/T set.[4] Based on the push to deploy wireless in such units, it is likely that her sisters were completed with W/T or received them shortly thereafter.[Inference]
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
