Fire Control Instrument
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A Fire Control Instrument, as the term is used in the Royal Navy of this period, is a mechanical or electro-mechanical communication device that helps coordinate gunnery. The interesting examples include data transmitters and receivers for communicating ranges, deflections and orders, but it extends to the simple gongs and bells used for coordinating salvo fire or the cessation of fire.
Oddly, the term was not often used to refer to items such as directors, Dreyer Fire Control Tables, etc.
See Also
- Vickers Fire Control Instruments
- Barr and Stroud Fire Control Instruments
- Siemens Fire Control Instruments
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Template:BibSchleihaufDumaresqAndDreyer
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- 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.
