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Revision as of 15:37, 9 April 2011
The five light cruisers of the Ceres Class were completed in 1917 and 1918.
Armament
Guns
The five 6-in guns on the centre-line had a maximum elevation of 30 degrees.[1]
Torpedoes
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Sometime during or after 1917, an additional 9-foot rangefinder was to be added specifically to augment torpedo control.[2]
Evershed Bearing Indicators
These ships almost certainly had Evershed gear for gun control from delivery, as they followed the Centaur class.[3]
Orders for Evershed installations for searchlight control from February 1917 applied to the Danae class, but may not have applied to Ceres.[4]
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
All ships were completed with gunnery directors in place.[5] The director was in a tower on a pedestal mounting..[6] It is not known if 'X' or any other gun acted as a directing gun as in the earlier Caledon class.[7]
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[8]
Fire Control Instruments
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See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1914-1918", p. 10.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 199. (possibly pertinent: C.I.O. 481/17)
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 29.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 11.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918., p. 142.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918., Plate opposite p. 142.
- ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
- Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
- Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918
- Template:BibUKFireControlInHMShips1919
- Template:BibUKProgressInNavalGunnery1914-1918
