Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)
Contents
Fire Control Systems
Rangefinders
Directors
Main Battery
The ships were fitted with a tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun (in Y turret?)[1]. The battery was not divisible into groups for split director firing[2].
Secondary Battery
The 4-in broadside guns are not listed as ever having had directors installed[3].
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
As of 1917, Inflexible still carried the Mark I Dreyer tables she'd been outfitted with[4]. Invincible was lost with her Mark I table at the Battle of Jutland. It appears likely that Indomitable never was fitted with a Dreyer table[5].
The ships were never given Dreyer Turret Control Tables[6].
Miscellaneous
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 88, 142.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 88.
- ↑ The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 143.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
- ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
- ↑ Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
Bibliography
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