Torpedo Sight Corrector

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Torpedo Sight Corrector[1]

A Torpedo Sight Corrector was a British apparatus to train men in torpedo attack using a Torpedo Deflection Sight.[Citation needed]

By mid 1919, 110 of these instruments were under manufacture, and some had been received and supplied to ships and bases. The intended allocation (1 each unless otherwise noted) was to be:[2]

Torpedo Schools
Vernon (2) Defiance Actaeon
Destroyer depot ships and bases
Dido (2) Dover (2) Port Edgar (2) Lyness (2)
Woolwich Diligence Apollo Blenheim
'Blake Greenwich Hecla Sandhurst
Senior Officers of Light Cruiser Squadrons
Caledon Carysfort Cardiff Birmingham
Calliope Curacoa Chatham Lowestoft
Light Cruisers and Destroyer Leaders
Castor Champion
Pre-Dreadnoughts
Lord Nelson Agamemnon
Dreadnoughts
Royal Sovereign Marlborough Canada Dreadnought
Royal Oak Emperor of India Agincourt Ramillies
Ramillies Neptune Resolution Colossus
Revenge King George V Hercules Queen Elizabeth
Ajax St. Vincent Warspite Centurion
Barham Erin Malaya Orion
Collingwood Valiant Monarch Superb
Iron Duke Conqueror Bellerophon Benbow
Thunderer Temeraire
Battlecruisers
Australia Indomitable Hood Howe
Lion New Zealand Tiger Courageous
Princess Royal Renown Inflexible Glorious
Repulse
Raleigh class
Raleigh Effingham Hawkins Frobisher
Torpedo carrying aeroplane ship
Furious Eagle Argus Vindictive
Submarine depots and bases
Titania Dolphin Adamant Forth
Lucia Ambrose Bonaventure Thames
Fearless Maidstone Vulcan Ithuriel
Platypus Alecto


Stores to accompany each T.S.C.[3]
Item Patt. # Quantity
Battery box
Note: normally, the 2630 accommodated 8 cells.
In this case, packing material should be used to fill the void of 2 missing cells. 		2630 1
Receptacle (for 2630?) 2631 1
Battery cell 3361 6
Push 1918 1
Cable 726 12 feet
Lamp 1661 2
Connection 3362 5


Modifications for Submarine Depot ships[4]
This permits periscope angle, track angle and a speed of enemy as low as 5 knots.[5]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916, Plate 41.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, pp. 228-229.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 229.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, Plate 47.
  5. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 229.

Bibliography

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