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===Directors===
 
===Directors===
 
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All eight ships were fitted with directors in 1915.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships'', p. 13.</ref> ''General Wolfe'', ''Lord Clive'' and ''Prince Eugene'' were later fitted with 18-in guns, requiring their directors to be updated in 1918, although this new director was never fitted in ''Prince Eugene''.<ref>''The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships'', p. 14.</ref>
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All eight ships were fitted with directors in 1915.{{FCHMShips|p. 13}} {{UK-GeneralWolfe}}, {{UK-LordClive}} and {{UK-PrinceEugene}} were later fitted with 18-in guns, requiring their directors to be updated in 1918, although this new director was never fitted in ''Prince Eugene''.{{FCHMShips|p. 14}}
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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Revision as of 13:30, 23 September 2012

Fire Control

ARTS1915Plate109.jpg

Directors

ARTS1915Plate108.jpg All eight ships were fitted with directors in 1915.[1] General Wolfe, Lord Clive and Prince Eugene were later fitted with 18-in guns, requiring their directors to be updated in 1918, although this new director was never fitted in Prince Eugene.[2]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. p. 13.
  2. The Technical History and Index, Vol. 3, Part 23. p. 14.

Bibliography

  • 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, Technical History Section (1919). The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in H.M. Ships. Vol. 3, Part 23. C.B. 1515 (23) now O.U. 6171/14. At The National Archives. ADM 275/19.
  • Buxton, Ian L. (1978). Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy's Monitors. Tynemouth: World Ship Society. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


Lord Clive Class Monitor
  Earl of Peterborough General Craufurd General Wolfe Lord Clive  
  Prince Eugene Prince Rupert Sir John Moore Sir Thomas Picton  
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