Courageous Class Battlecruiser (1916)
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Fire Control
Rangefinders
Directors
Both ships were completed with directors for main and secondary batteries installed.[1]
Main Battery
These ships were completed with 2 cam-type, tripod-mounted directors, one in an armoured tower and one in a light aloft tower.[2] The battery was divisible into forward ('A' turret) and aft ('Y' turret) groups, and a C.O.S. in the TS allowed the following modes of control:[3]
- All guns on aloft director
- All guns on armoured director
- Forward group on aloft director, aft on armoured director
Secondary Battery
The 4-in guns for both were supported by a pair of pedestal-mounted directors situated on the centre line, one forward and one aft.[4] A C.O.S. in the TS allowed the following modes of control:[5]
- All guns on forward director
- All guns on aft director
- Forward group on forward director, aft group on on aft director
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
Each ship had a Mark IV* Dreyer Table and 2 (?) Turret Control Tables.[6]
Fire Control Instruments
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 9-11, 16.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 142.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 89.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 143.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 91.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918