Acasta Class Destroyer (1912)

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Twenty destroyers of the Acasta Class were completed as part of the 1911-1912 Programme. Twelve were Admiralty design, and eight were Specials.

They were the first Royal Navy destroyers to drop the 12-pdr gun and use only 4-in guns.

Armament

Guns

Three 4-in guns on centre line

Torpedoes

Two single 21-in tubes on tne centre line

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

Main Battery

Secondary Battery

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[1]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

  • [Acasta_class_destroyer Wikipedia]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

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