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====Main Battery====
====Main Battery====
''Repulse'' 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, ''Repulse'' 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===
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Revision as of 21:33, 13 August 2009

H.M.S. Repulse
Career Details
Pendant Number: 26 (April, 1918)
Built By: John Brown, Clydebank
Laid Down: 25 January, 1915
Launched: 8 January, 1916
Commissioned: 18 August, 1916
Sunk: 10 December, 1941
Fate: Sunk off Malaya

Fire Control Systems

Rangefinders

Directors

Main Battery

Secondary Battery

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

Miscellaneous

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography

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