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• Gun Control Tower
  ...into service in the [[Orion Class Battleship (1910)|''Orion'']] and [[Lion Class Battlecruiser (1910)|''Lion classes]]. ...moured rangefinder position. From the ''Queen Elizabeth'' class and later capital ships, it was surmounted by an [[Armoured Tower]] containing a secondary di
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• Armoured Director Tower
  ...ed Director Tower''' was a well-protected revolving structure on a capital ship within which a [[Gunnery Director|gun director]] was situated. It was gen ...Renown'']], [[Courageous Class Battlecruiser (1916)|''Courageous'']] and {{UK-Hood}} classes were built with these features. Other ships relied on use of
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• Challenger Class Cruiser (1902)
  The two cruisers of the '''''Challenger'' class''' were completed in 1904 and 1905. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• British Tripod Director Firing System
  ...irst British gunnery director generally deployed, and the one on which its capital ships relied during the [[Battle of Jutland]]. ...deemed the primary director in recognition of its higher placement in the ship and the presumably better view it enjoyed, despite its more vulnerable posi
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• H.M.S. Inflexible at the Battle of Jutland
  ...destroyers "{{UK-Ophelia}}," "{{UK-Christopher}}," "{{UK-1Shark}}," and "{{UK-1Acasta}}." This Squadron, which left in advance of the main fleet, which 2. At noon on Wednesday, 31st May, the position of the {{UK-BCS|3}} was 58° 7' North, 3° 55' East. At 2.20 p.m., the first reports o
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• Triumph Class Battleship (1903)
  The two '''''Triumph'' class battleships''' (called the '''''Swiftsure'' class''' in many sources) were pre-dreadnoughts originally ordered for Chile, but {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Mechanical Aid-to-Spotter Mark I
  ...ure that all members of the fire control staff were in harmony as to which ship their own was targeting. ...ss Battleship (1910)|''Orions'']], and the three surviving [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George Vs'']].
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• British Destroyer Director Firing System
  ...issing in the Royal Navy's [[British Tripod Director Firing System|capital ship director system]]. ...for the bulky equipment that comprised the director firing systems used in capital ships, but some simplifications and compromises were seen as helpful in pre
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• Gem Class Cruiser (1903)
  ...ed in 1904 and 1905. They were occasionally referred to as the ''Topaze'' class. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Tangent Bar
  ...s introduced. The remote placement of the director was often necessary on capital ships with submerged broadside tubes, or desirable on ships where the aimin ...ted to a given fixed distance from director to firing tube. As such, each ship's director positions would require their own tangent bars. The range set u
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• Battlecruiser
  ....S. Invincible (1907)|H.M.S. ''Invincible'']] is usually seen as the first ship of the type, though her sister [[H.M.S. Inflexible (1907)|''Inflexible'']] ...t would not be needed by such a fast (and therefore, he felt, hard to hit) ship might give the Royal Navy a type which could lasso enemy cruisers on the hi
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• H.M.S. Lowestoft (1913)
  ...k of the war. She was launched at 1:20pm on the 23rd.<ref>Ship's log of {{UK-Astraea}} at {{TNA|ADM 53/34351.}}</ref> In March 1914, the ship was to carry a single red band on second and fourth funnel.{{AWO1914|924 of
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• Drake Class Cruiser (1901)
  The four [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the '''''Drake'' Class''' were completed in 1902 and 1903. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Duke of Edinburgh Class Cruiser (1904)
  The two [[Armoured Cruiser|armoured cruisers]] of the '''Duke of Edinburgh Class''' were completed in 1906. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)
  ...Devonshire'' class]], referred to as [[County Class Cruiser (1901)|"County Class" cruisers]]. {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• H.M.S. Valiant (1914)
  The ship had a pool table, a photo of which is in the Crawford Scrapbook, Liddle Col In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 250, though the boat was not yet
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• Devonshire Class Cruiser (1903)
  ...outh'' class]], often referred to as [[County Class Cruiser (1901)|"County Class" cruisers]]. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• H.M.S. Orion (1910)
  ...authorised in 1909 and one of four [[Orion Class Battleship (1910) |Orion Class Battleships]] and was built at [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]].<ref name=thet ...o ''Orion'' escaped damage. Even so, the precautionary docking of the new ship would delay her joining the Home Fleet as the new second flagship.{{ToL|The
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• Indefatigable Class Battlecruiser (1909)
  {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin: | colspan=6 align=left|<small>Citations for this data available on individual ship pages</small>
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• H.M.S. King George V (1911)
  ...rge V''''' was one of four [[H.M.S. King George V (1911)|''King George V'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] shortly before the war. ...teration could be copied for ''Ajax'', ''Audacious'' and the ''Iron Duke'' class.<ref>Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Li
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