H.M.S. Valiant (1914)

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H.M.S. Valiant
Career Details
Pendant Number: 43 (April, 1918)[1]
Ordered: 1912-1913 Programme
Built By: Fairfield, Govan
Laid Down: 31 January, 1913
Launched: 4 November, 1914
Commissioned: 13 January, 1916
Sold: 19 March, 1948
Fate: Scrapped
Motto: Valiant yet Vigilant
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Career

Valiant was commissioned at Govan on 13 January, 1916, by Captain Woollcombe.[2]

The ship had a pool table, a photo of which is in the Crawford Scrapbook, Liddle Collection, University of Leeds.

Alterations

Valiant was completed with director firing installed, as all capital ships were supposed to do after 2 January, 1915.[3]

In December, 1914, Open Director Sights were ordered for all[Inference] her turrets. They were likely in place by her completion.[4]

Between late 1915 and mid 1917, she was fitted with a Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument Mark II in the TCT.[5][6]

Her secondary battery directors were installed in April, 1917.[7]

When in 1918 it was desired to give each capital ship possible an additional effective 9-foot rangefinder to support torpedo control, Valiant proposed a pair of transversing mountings atop the beef screen, one each side. Vernon did not want the transversing mountings, owing to the loss in efficiency they incurred on the rangefinder.[8]

Commanding Officers

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See Also

Footnotes

  1. Dittmar; Colledge. p.34.
  2. Campbell. p. 44.
  3. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, pp. 10.
  4. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 18.
  5. Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916, p. 38.
  6. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 60.
  7. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, p. 16.
  8. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 177.
  9. Navy List (October, 1917). p. 398p.
  10. Navy List (December, 1918). p. 923a.

Bibliography

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