Warrior Class Cruiser (1905)
The four armoured cruisers of the Warrior Class were completed in 1906 and 1907.
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
It is unlikely that this equipment was ever provided.[Inference]
Directors
In 1916, it was approved that the 2 surviving ships of this class should be retrofitted with directors as time, resources and opportunity permitted,[1] but these ambitions were slow to execute. Achilles received one in October 1918, but the war ended before Cochrane received hers.[2]
Gunnery Control
Local Control in Turrets
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships never received Dreyer tables.[3]
Fire Control Instruments
By 1909, all 4 ships were equipped with Vickers, Son and Maxim instruments for range, deflection and orders and with Barr and Stroud rate instruments as follows:[4]
- Vickers range transmitters: 10
- Vickers deflection transmitters: 10
- Vickers combined range and deflection receivers: 31
- Vickers C.O.S.: 5
- Vickers Check fire switches: 10
- Barr and Stroud rate transmitters: 4
- Barr and Stroud rate receivers: 12
- Siemens turret fire gongs: 20 with 10 keys
- Vickers fire gongs: none
- Captain's Cease Fire Bells: 10 with 1 key (supplier not stated)
As in the Minotaur class, bearing instruments were installed in or by 1915.[5] The centre line 9.2-in guns formed one group, and the mixed-caliber port and starboard broadsides two more. The receivers in the first group could be driven by a transmitter in the TS or switched to attend to either of two special Graham's type transmitters in the foretop.
The overall bill of fare ran to:
- 2 special bearing transmitters, Graham's type (in foretop, P&S)
- 3 Barr and Stroud bearing transmitters (2 in foretop P & S, 1 in fore TS)
- 15 bearing receivers:
- 10 in the turrets (1 each)
- 3 repeats in the fore TS
- 2 repeats in the foretop
- Three C.O.S. (one in fore TS, and two in foretop)
These ships lacked Target Visible and Gun Ready signals.[6]
Torpedo Control
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 175.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables. p. 3.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909, pp. 56, 60.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 219.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. p. 11.
Bibliography
- 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.
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