Centaur Class Cruiser (1916)
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Armament
Guns
Torpedoes
2 Service Bar 21-in submerged broadside tubes amidships depressed 4 degrees and bearing 90.[1]
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.[2]
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
Both were completed with gunnery directors in place.[3]
The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting and was probably augmented by use of their 'X' gun as a directing gun.[4][Inference]
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[5]
Fire Control Instruments
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See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 36.
- ↑ 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
