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====Main Battery====
 
====Main Battery====
 
''Renown'' was fitted with 2 tripod-type directors, one in an armoured tower and one in a light aloft tower<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  p. 142</ref>.  It is likely that B turret had a directing gun in its right position.
 
  
 
====Secondary Battery====
 
====Secondary Battery====
 
Her 4-in guns were supported by a pair of pedestal-mounted directors with double cam grooves and two rollers, one forward (on foremast below the spotting top) and one aft (on mainmast)<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  p. 143</ref>.
 
  
 
===Torpedo Control===
 
===Torpedo Control===
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===Dreyer Table===
 
===Dreyer Table===
 
Like her sister, ''Renown'' had a Mark IV* Dreyer table<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>, and 3 (?) Dreyer Turret Control Tables<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>.
 
  
 
===Miscellaneous===
 
===Miscellaneous===

Revision as of 17:33, 13 August 2009

H.M.S. Renown
Career Details
Pendant Number: 23 (April, 1918)
Built By: Fairfield, Govan
Laid Down: 25 January, 1915
Launched: 4 March, 1916
Commissioned: 20 September, 1916
Sold: 19 March, 1948
Fate: Scrapped

Fire Control Systems

Rangefinders

Directors

Main Battery

Secondary Battery

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

Miscellaneous

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography

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