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==Fire Control==
 
  
===Rangefinders===
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==Armament==
  
===Evershed Bearing Indicators===
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===Guns===
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* eight Q.F. 4-inch guns
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* eight Q.F. 3-pdr guns
  
===Gunnery Control===
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===Torpedoes===
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* two 18-in torpedo tubes
  
====Control Positions====
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===Other Weapons===
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Prior to [[Small Arms and Edged Weapons (Royal Navy)|reductions in such provisions enacted in mid-1903]], the ships had been allowed 66 cutlasses.{{PQDNO1904|pp. 249-253}}
  
====Control Groups====
 
 
===Directors===
 
 
====Main Battery====
 
 
====Secondary Battery====
 
 
===Torpedo Control===
 
 
===Transmitting Stations===
 
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===Dreyer Table===
 
===Dreyer Table===
 
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Latest revision as of 16:28, 6 April 2018

The eleven third class cruisers of the Pelorus Class were completed between 1897 and 1901.

Armament

Guns

  • eight Q.F. 4-inch guns
  • eight Q.F. 3-pdr guns

Torpedoes

  • two 18-in torpedo tubes

Other Weapons

Prior to reductions in such provisions enacted in mid-1903, the ships had been allowed 66 cutlasses.[1]

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[2]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Principal Questions Dealt with by the Director of Naval Ordnance, 1904. pp. 249-253.
  2. Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.

Bibliography


Pelorus Class Third Class Protected Cruiser
Pandora Pelorus Pegasus Perseus Pactolus
  Pioneer Pomone Prometheus  
  Proserpine Psyche Pyramus  
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