Difference between revisions of "Gorgon Class Battleship (1914)"

From The Dreadnought Project
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 53: Line 53:
 
</small>
 
</small>
  
[[Category:Ship Class]]
+
{{Gorgon Class (1914)}}
  
{{Gorgon Class (1913)}}
+
{{CatClassUKMonitor|sort=Gorgon}}

Revision as of 12:46, 7 May 2012

The two coast defence battleships (sometimes referred to as monitors) of the Gorgon Class were being built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and were taken up for Royal Navy service. They were completed in 1918.

Armament

Guns

Torpedoes

2 Elswick 18-in submerged, rear-loading broadside tubes forward undepressed and bearing 90. Impulse from Elswick H.P. air. [1]

In 1916, it was said that the torpedoes used were 18-in Fiume Mark III** V. B.[2]

These were, however, removed around 1917.[3]

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

Both ships had directors for main and secondary batteries in place upon joining the fleet.[4]

Designs for the 9.2-in guns were called for on 12 September, 1917 and for the 6-in guns on 25 October, 1917.[5]

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[6]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 36.
  2. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 46.
  3. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 76.
  4. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
  5. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
  6. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

Template:Gorgon Class (1914)

Template:CatClassUKMonitor