Early Dreyer Bearing Plot

The Early Dreyer Bearing Plots is a collective description of a family of bearing plots found on Dreyer tables before the advent of the Standard Bearing Plot and Gyro Director Training Gear. These bearing plot patterns changed incrementally and are historically important, for it was ones of this lineage that found general use at Jutland.

Mark III Table plan from June 1912
Note bearing plot on left with single deflection drum and primitive rate grid.

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See Also

• Standard Bearing Plot
• Gyro Director Training Gear
• Dreyer Fire Control Table

Bibliography

• Brooks, John (2005). Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 0714657026. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
• Dreyer, Frederic; Usborne, Cecil through Gunnery Branch, Admiralty. (1913). Pollen Aim Corrector System, Part I. Technical History and Technical Comparison with Commander F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control System. P. 1024. in Admiralty Library, Portsmouth.
• Elliott Brothers, London (1916). Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Apparatus, Mark IV. Copy 19 "as fitted in H.M.S. Royal Oak" at H.M.S. Excellent Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.