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===Directors===
 
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All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919'', p. 11.</ref>
 
All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919'', p. 11.</ref>
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The director was likely on a pedestal mounting in a tower on the foremast.  'X' or 'Y' may have served as a [[Directing Gun|directing gun]] in addition.<ref>''Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918''., p. 142 and plate opposite.<br>I am inferring that the pattern of installation prevalent on the larger light cruisers would be adopted.</ref>
  
 
===Torpedo Control===
 
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Revision as of 13:23, 2 October 2009

The two light cruisers of the Emerald Class were completed in 1926. A third vessel, Euphrates, was not completed.

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

These ships almost certainly had Evershed gear for gun control from delivery, and would also feature Evershed installations for searchlight control after orders for such installations from February 1917.[1]

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.[2]

The director was likely on a pedestal mounting in a tower on the foremast. 'X' or 'Y' may have served as a directing gun in addition.[3]

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

Fire Control Instruments

[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
  2. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
  3. Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918., p. 142 and plate opposite.
    I am inferring that the pattern of installation prevalent on the larger light cruisers would be adopted.

Bibliography

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