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===Rangefinders===
 
===Rangefinders===
 
When in 1918 it was desired to give each capital ship possible an additional effective 9-foot rangefinder to support torpedo control, ''Ajax'' proposed one centrally on the fore bridge.{{ARTS1918|p. 177}}
 
When in 1918 it was desired to give each capital ship possible an additional effective 9-foot rangefinder to support torpedo control, ''Ajax'' proposed one centrally on the fore bridge.{{ARTS1918|p. 177}}
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In September 1914, the ship was to be sent eight 3/9 power telescopes and to return the same number of 2.5 power scopes, Pattern G. 329 upon receipt.  These were likely to serve as trainer telescopes.  Constrained supplies meant that 26% of the scopes actually supplied her may have wound up being 5/12 or 5/21 scopes.{{AWO1914|408 of 25 Sep, 1914}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
==Captains==

Revision as of 15:12, 16 November 2012

H.M.S. Ajax (1912)
Pendant Number: 40 (1914)
05 (Jan 1918)
46 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Scott, Greenock[2]
Ordered: 1910 Programme[3]
Laid down: 27 Feb, 1911[4]
Launched: 21 Mar, 1912[5]
Commissioned: 31 Oct, 1913
Sold: 9 Nov, 1926[6]
Fate: Scrapped


Alterations

Ajax was one of the first ships fitted with a director, receiving hers in 1913 after she was listed in that year's twelve ship order.[7] Her director was certainly fitted after King George V received hers, and to much the same design.[8]

By the end of 1915, and probably during 1915, she received one of the first three sets of Walker's Instruments, presumably for trial.[9]

In 1916 or soon thereafter, she would have received Evershed Bearing Indicators for her main battery, as approved in 1916.[10]

Between late 1915 and mid 1917, she was fitted with a Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument Mark II in the T.C.T..[11][12]

Rangefinders

When in 1918 it was desired to give each capital ship possible an additional effective 9-foot rangefinder to support torpedo control, Ajax proposed one centrally on the fore bridge.[13]

Telescopes

In September 1914, the ship was to be sent eight 3/9 power telescopes and to return the same number of 2.5 power scopes, Pattern G. 329 upon receipt. These were likely to serve as trainer telescopes. Constrained supplies meant that 26% of the scopes actually supplied her may have wound up being 5/12 or 5/21 scopes.[14]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Jutland

Main article

Ajax operated in the Second Battle Squadron under the command of George H. Baird,[23] being the second ship in the battle line after deployment.

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  5. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  6. Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  7. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. pp. 9-10.
  8. Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library, DEY/27
  9. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 60.
  10. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 145.
  11. Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916. p. 38.
  12. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 60.
  13. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918. p. 177.
  14. Admiralty Weekly Order No. 408 of 25 Sep, 1914.
  15. The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 270.
  16. Naval Operations. Volume I. p. 438.
  17. The Navy List (December, 1916). p. 391e.
  18. The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 726.
  19. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  20. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  21. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  22. Mackie, Colin. ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS.
  23. Battle of Jutland Official Despatches. p. 43.

Bibliography


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