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==Alterations==
 
==Alterations==

Revision as of 20:57, 23 September 2012

H.M.S. Ajax (1912)
Pendant Number: 40 (1914)
05 (Jan 1918)
46 (Apr 1918)[1]
Builder: Scott, Greenock[2]
Ordered: 1910 Programme[3]
Laid down: 27 Feb, 1911[4]
Launched: 21 Mar, 1912[5]
Commissioned: 31 Oct, 1913
Sold: 9 Nov, 1926[6]
Fate: Scrapped


Alterations

Ajax was one of the first ships fitted with a director, receiving hers in 1913 after she was listed in that year's twelve ship order.[7] Her director was certainly fitted after King George V received hers, and to much the same design.[8]

By the end of 1915, and probably during 1915, she received one of the first three sets of Walker's Instruments, presumably for trial.[9]

In 1916 or soon thereafter, she would have received Evershed Bearing Indicators for her main battery, as approved in 1916.[10]

Between late 1915 and mid 1917, she was fitted with a Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument Mark II in the TCT.[11][12]

Rangefinders

When in 1918 it was desired to give each capital ship possible an additional effective 9-foot rangefinder to support torpedo control, Ajax proposed one centrally on the fore bridge.[13]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Jutland

Main article

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 30.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  6. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 33.
  7. ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-10.
  8. ↑ Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library, DEY/27
  9. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 60.
  10. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 145.
  11. ↑ Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916, p. 38.
  12. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 60.
  13. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 177.
  14. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1914). p. 270.
  15. ↑ Corbett. Naval Operations, Volume I, p. 438.
  16. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1916). p. 391e.
  17. ↑ The Navy List (December, 1918). p. 726.

Bibliography



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