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==Binoculars==
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In September 1914, the ships were allowed four additional pairs of Pattern 343 Service Binoculars.{{AWO1914|331 of 8 Sep, 1914}}
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==Armament==
 
==Armament==
  
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===Main Battery===
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* sixteen 6-in Q.F. guns on P. II U.D. mountings
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In early 1905, it was approved that the 6-in guns should be equipped with "A" class cross connected sights.{{PQDNO1905|pp. 489-91}}
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===Secondary Battery===
 
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Prior to [[Small Arms and Edged Weapons (Royal Navy)|reductions in such provisions enacted in mid-1903]], the ships had been allowed 202 cutlasses.{{PQDNO1904|pp. 249-253}}
  
 
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The eight protected cruisers of the Diadem Class were completed between 1898 and 1903.

Binoculars

In September 1914, the ships were allowed four additional pairs of Pattern 343 Service Binoculars.[1]

Armament

Main Battery

  • sixteen 6-in Q.F. guns on P. II U.D. mountings
  • fourteen 12-pdr Q.F. guns
  • six 3-pdr Q.F. guns

In early 1905, it was approved that the 6-in guns should be equipped with "A" class cross connected sights.[2]

Secondary Battery

Other Weapons

Prior to reductions in such provisions enacted in mid-1903, the ships had been allowed 202 cutlasses.[3]

Torpedoes

  • two 18-in submerged broadside tubes forward, depressed three degrees and bearing abeam; axis of tube was 6 foot 6 inches below load water line and 1 feet 6 inches above deck.[4]

Fire Control

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[5]

Fire Control Instruments

The Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909 lists the Barr and Stroud Mark II equipment on this class as:[6]

  • Combined Range, Order, Deflection: 4 transmitters, 26 receivers
  • Group Switches: 2
  • Rate: 4 transmitters, 4 receivers
  • Bearing: none
  • Range: none

Additionally, this class had the following Siemens fire control equipment:[7]

  • Turret fire gongs: none
  • Fire Gongs: 16 with 4 keys
  • Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 18 with 1 key

None of the ships had Target Visible or Gun Ready signals.[8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Admiralty Weekly Order No. 331 of 8 Sep, 1914.
  2. ↑ Principal Questions Dealt with by the Director of Naval Ordnance, 1905. pp. 489-91.
  3. ↑ Principal Questions Dealt with by the Director of Naval Ordnance, 1904. pp. 249-253.
  4. ↑ Torpedo Manual, Vol. III, 1909. p. 265.
  5. ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. p. 58.
  7. ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. p. 58.
  8. ↑ 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.
  • 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.
  • Brooks, John (2005). Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 0714657026. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1917). The Director Firing Handbook. O.U. 6125 (late C.B. 1259). Copy No. 322 at The National Archives. ADM 186/227.
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Keith McBride. The Diadem Class Cruisers in Warship, Volume XI Issue 44.


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