Ceres Class Cruiser (1917)
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]
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[8]
Fire Control Instruments
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Torpedo Control
In 1916, it was decided that all light cruisers of Bristol class and later should have torpedo firing keys (Pattern 2333) fitted on the fore bridge, in parallel with those in the CT, and that a flexible voice pipe be fitted between these positions.[9]
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.
- ↑ Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1916, p. 146.
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
