Transmitting Station
A Transmitting Station (or T.S. or TS), as it was termed by the Royal Navy; it was called a "Plotting Room" in American naval parlance, is a room deep within a large ship where communications and calculations pertaining to gunnery are worked. It serves as a nexus for command and communication.
Capital ships in the Royal Navy tended to have 2 T.S.s fitted (one fore and and aft) prior to King George V and Queen Mary which inaugurated a switch to a single T.S.[1].
The size and sophistication of these compartments and their equipment varied by the nationality, date of design and type of vessel; those of the later and larger ships of the most technologically advanced nations boasted the largest dimensions, and were richest in their number of instruments and attendant personnel.
Footnotes
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, p. 51.
Bibliography
- 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.
