Vickers Fire Control Instruments
Vickers manufactured a variety of Step-by-Step Fire Control Instruments and bells for shipboard communication. The Royal Navy tested and deployed Vickers instruments in a number of ships, eventually favouring their F.T.P. instruments for use in keeping sights set to the proper range and deflection.
Dial Instruments
Vickers dial instruments were step-by-step devices. The range and deflection transmitters had tell-tale receivers built into them to indicate the value, and a single handle by which to drive the value through its range.
There were no separate order instruments, but the transmitters featured a 3 position "check fire switch" could be set to "Control Fire" or "Check Fire" to cause the receivers to expose a red or a white disc, respectively. The intermediate position of this switch was labelled "Off" and removed power from the attached instruments entirely.
F.T.P. Instruments
Mark I Instruments
Mark II Instruments
Mark III Instruments
Mark III* Instruments
Mark IV* Instruments
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKARTS1903
- Template:BibUKARTS1904
- Template:BibUKARTS1906
- Template:BibUKTorpedoDrillBook1905
- Template:BibUKTorpedoDrillBook1908
- Template:BibUKTorpedoDrillBook1912
- Template:BibUKTorpedoDrillBook1914
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- 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.
