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| + | ===Rangefinders=== | ||
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| + | ===Evershed Bearing Indicators=== | ||
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| + | It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.{{INF}} | ||
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| + | ===Directors=== | ||
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| + | These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries.<ref>''Director Firing Handbook, 1917''. pp. 142-3.</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Gunnery Control=== | ||
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| + | ===Local Control in Turrets=== | ||
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| + | ===Transmitting Stations=== | ||
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| + | ===Dreyer Table=== | ||
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| + | These ships never received Dreyer tables.<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables''. p. 3.</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Shipwide Network=== | ||
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| + | By 1909, all 6 ships were equipped with [[Vickers|Vickers, Son and Maxim]] instruments for range, deflection and orders and with [[Barr and Stroud]] [[Range Rate|rate]] instruments as follows:<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909'', pp. 56, 60.</ref> | ||
| + | * Vickers range transmitters: 6 | ||
| + | * Vickers deflection transmitters: 6 | ||
| + | * Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 21 | ||
| + | * Vickers C.O.S.: 3 | ||
| + | * Vickers Check fire switches: 6 | ||
| + | * Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4 | ||
| + | * Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8 | ||
| + | * Siemens turret fire gongs: 8 with 4 keys | ||
| + | * Vickers fire gongs: 6 with 2 keys | ||
| + | * Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 12 with 1 key (supplier not stated) | ||
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| + | These ships lacked ''Target Visible'' and ''Gun Ready'' signals.<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914''. p. 11.</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Torpedo Control=== | ||
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| + | ==See Also== | ||
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| + | ==Footnotes== | ||
| + | {{reflist}} | ||
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| + | ==Bibliography== | ||
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| + | *{{BibUKHandbookFireControlInstruments1909}} | ||
| + | *{{BibUKHandbookFireControlInstruments1914}} | ||
| + | *{{BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917}} | ||
| + | *{{BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918}} | ||
| + | </small> | ||
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| + | [[Category:Ship Class]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Ship Class of the Royal Navy]] | ||
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| + | {{Devonshire Class (1903)}} | ||
Revision as of 19:27, 20 September 2009
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.[Inference]
Directors
These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries.[1]
Gunnery Control
Local Control in Turrets
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships never received Dreyer tables.[2]
Shipwide Network
By 1909, all 6 ships were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments as follows:[3]
- Vickers range transmitters: 6
- Vickers deflection transmitters: 6
- Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 21
- Vickers C.O.S.: 3
- Vickers Check fire switches: 6
- Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
- Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 8
- Siemens turret fire gongs: 8 with 4 keys
- Vickers fire gongs: 6 with 2 keys
- Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 12 with 1 key (supplier not stated)
These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[4]
Torpedo Control
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1914). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. G. 01627/14. C.B. 1030. Copy 1235 at The National Archives. ADM 186/191.
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
