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Revision as of 17:20, 2 October 2009

The two light cruisers of the Centaur Class were completed in 1916.

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

This class was the first light cruiser class to feature Evershed installations, possibly upon their very completion. Such equipment became standard from here on out.[1]

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

Both were completed with gunnery directors in place.[2]

The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting and was probably augmented by use of their 'X' gun as a directing gun.[3][Inference]

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[4]

Fire Control Instruments

[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
  2. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
  3. Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918., p. 142 and plate opposite.
    I am inferring that the 2 light cruisers shown in the plate are meant to represent those with and without a tower.
  4. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

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