British Adoption of Electricity
From The Dreadnought Project
The Royal Navy was fairly quick to harness electricity in a number of disparate applications, from lighting to ventilation to firing circuits for guns and mines to radio and fire control purposes. The work was left to the torpedomen, and much of the innovation and instruction occurred in the torpedo training school H.M.S. Vernon.
Early Experiments
Shipboard Practice
By mid-1913, it was found that, in the latest battleships and battlecruisers, 35% of fuel expenditure was for "auxiliary purposes", of which electrical generation was a component of 13.6%.[1]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Fuel for the Fleet, Admiralty 30 January, 1914. CHAR 13/31/8 p. 1.
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