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• H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)
  ...ool''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ...information of the naval service in that branch of their duty."<ref>"Naval Gunnery" (News). ''The Times''. Friday, 20 August, 1841. Issue '''17754''', col
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• H.M.S. Cambridge (Gunnery Training School)
  ...''''', an old 80-gun third-rate launched in 1815, became the first Gunnery Training ship at Plymouth. ...ame part of [[Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport]] as the [[Devonport Gunnery School]], under the general control of the Commodore-in-Command.{{NMI|Tuesday, 5 N
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• Frank Oswald Lewis
  On 11 November, 1902 he was appointed to the {{UK-Flora|f=t}} as first and gunnery officer.<ref>Lewis Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/356.|D7602681}} f. 391 ...oke out, Lewis was serving at Portsmouth as the Superintendent of Physical Training. An appointment to {{UK-Charybdis}} was considered in October 1914, but is
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• King George V Class Battleship (1911)
  * Gunnery Control Tower: 4 inches ...Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', Plate 46, ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916'', p. 145}}
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• Iron Duke Class Battleship (1912)
  ...either or both of the other groups on its broadside. See the notes on the gunnery groups to see how this loosely mimics the fire control instruments.{{ARTS19 ...be upgraded to 15-foot instruments, with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship (1913)
  ...by just a single revolution of the hand wheel.<ref>Brooks. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', pp. 45-46. I am inferring the performance.</r ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Revenge Class Battleship (1914)
  ...fire control outfits of these ships in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''. ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)
  ...ntrol system for this class is found in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913''. It features descriptions of adapted forms of existing Barr and St ===Gunnery Control===
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• Courageous Class Battlecruiser (1916)
  There is significant information on this in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.{{ARTS1915|p. 239}} ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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• Admiralty Pattern Number
  ...mens, in use in ''Dreadnought'' c 1911.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911'', p. 95.</ref> |105 || [[Vickers Range Clock]]<ref>Admiralty. 'Manual of Gunnery for HM Fleet, Volume III, 1920, pp. 19-20.</ref>||
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• H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)
  ..." on the centre line and "P" to port and "Q" to starboard.<ref>''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), 1907'', p. 1.</ref> ...received this in a retrofit by November, 1909.<ref>Brooks. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', p. 46.</ref>
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• H.M.S. Invincible (1907)
  ...rey Otway Tupper|Reginald Tupper]] of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], who conducted the gun trials, later recalled: ...own electrical experts and commercial firms, and the apparently successful gunnery of the new American battleships that had been fitted with electrically mani
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• H.M.S. Furious (1916)
  ...Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 486.</ref>|note=ship is a gunnery training ship}} ...its own 8-cell battery.{{ARTS1916|Plate 73. ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915'', p. 239}}
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• H.M.S. Agincourt (1913)
  ...Newcastle as soon as possible and proceed to the vicinity of Loch Ewe for gunnery and torpedo practice.<ref>"Grand Fleet Operations - Narrative of Events." ...'''s Fire Control Diagram'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]]
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• H.M.S. Erin (1913)
  ...'''s Fire Control Systems'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]] ===Gunnery Control===
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• Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy
  ...rent class of officers. The War Staff is to be the means of preparing and training those officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of th ...once a convenient and flexible machine for the elaboration of plans and a school of sound and progressive thought on naval science.
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...readnought'']], concentrated the fleet in home waters, and reorganised the training and distribution of personnel. Having retired in 1910, he was then instrum ...s']; this officer obtained high first class certificates in seamanship and gunnery, and has now passed in navigation under the Regulations laid down in Circul
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  ...A, p. 14.</ref> He was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877. He left on 24 July, 1 He returned home and was appointed to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] at Portsmouth on 19 August, 1884,<ref>ADM 196/20.
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• John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe
  ...entrance examination and passed into the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 July, 1872.<ref>Bacon. ''Earl ...him meet required stints at sea while spending more energy on the study of gunnery before returning to ''Excellent'' where his talents received the influentia
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• Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  ...onal Maritime Museum. JAC 1, 2.</ref> Jackson joined [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|H.M.S. ''Britannia'']] on 23 January, 1869. He was entitled to a Fir ...nted to the ''Excellent'' for study, and on 30 October, 1875 he joined the training brig ''Liberty''. On 26 May, 1876, he was appointed to the corvette ''Rove
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• Arthur William Acland Hood, First Baron Hood
  ...an administrator. The ''Excellent'' was, and is, the school of scientific gunnery, and after three years in her Hood was appointed Director of Naval Ordnance ...tley Cooper Key|Astley C. Key]]'''|'''[[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|Captain of H.M.S. ''Excellent'']]'''<br>3 Sep, 1866{{NLDec68|p. 193}}|Succ
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• Morgan Singer
  ...of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. After a career as a gunnery specialist, in 1914 he was appointed as [[Director of Naval Ordnance and To .... T. Tudor]] as commanding officer of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] on 1 June, 1912.<ref>"New Director of Naval Ordnanc
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