Newitt's Searchlight Control

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Newitt's Control[1]

Newitt's Control (originally dubbed the Chatham System, in 1914) was a searchlight control system developed by the Royal Navy.[2]

Description

Details at the Searchlight[3]

A control column with a wheel for training and a wheel for tilting a remote searchlight was able to control a remote searchlight by means of a hydraulic medium passing through 1⁄4-in tubing to a single searchlight. The searchlight had a brass box with cylinders within that transferred the hydraulic signaling to wires to manipulate the lamp.

Installation

The Calliope was first to have it installed, reporting favourably upon its use at sea in 1915 as suggestions for continued improvement streamed in.[4]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. Plate 37.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 112.
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. Plate 38.
  4. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915. p. 112.

Bibliography

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