Centaur Class Cruiser (1916)
From The Dreadnought Project
The two light cruisers of the Centaur Class were completed in 1916.
Armament
Guns
Torpedoes
2 Service Bar 21-in submerged broadside tubes amidships depressed 4 degrees and bearing 90.[1]
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Sometime during or after 1917, an additional 9-foot rangefinder was to be added specifically to augment torpedo control.[2]
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.[3]
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
Both were completed with gunnery directors in place.[4]
The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting and was probably augmented by use of their 'X' gun as a directing gun.[5][Inference]
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[6]
Fire Control Instruments
[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 36.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 199. (possibly pertinent: C.I.O. 481/17)
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
- ↑ 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. - ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKARTS1915
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
