Rice's Torpedo Automatic Sight
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Rice's Torpedo Automatic Sight, the brainchild of Lt. Arthur Rice, was a sophisticated self-setting Torpedo Director described in Annual Reports of the Torpedo School.[1]
In 1915, it was viewed as a fall-back option should the as-yet untested Middleton Plotter which was proving slow to manufacture should prove unsatisfactory for use in capital ships. The Torpedo School intended to propose to the Admiralty that a pair of devices based upon Rice's design be delivered to H.M.S. Marlborough and Ajax (vessels selected by the Commander-in-Chief) for sea trial.[2]
[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE] — TONY LOVELL, Editor.
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- H.M.S. Vernon. (Feb 1914) Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913, with Appendix (Wireless Telegraphy). Copy 42 at The National Archives. ADM 189/33.
- H.M.S. Vernon. (Jan 1916) Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. C.B. 1166. Copy 1025 at The National Archives. ADM 189/35.
- Papers D.N.O. 3598/271
- (G. 21686/13 of 16th December 1913)
