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Revision as of 11:09, 2 July 2012
The two coast defence battleships (sometimes referred to as monitors) of the Gorgon Class were being built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and were taken up for Royal Navy service. They were completed in 1918.
Armament
Guns
Torpedoes
2 Elswick 18-in submerged, rear-loading broadside tubes forward undepressed and bearing 90. Impulse from Elswick H.P. air. [1]
In 1916, it was said that the torpedoes used were 18-in Fiume Mark III** V. B.[2]
These were, however, removed around 1917.[3]
Fire Control
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
Both ships had directors for main and secondary batteries in place upon joining the fleet.[4]
Designs for the 9.2-in guns were called for on 12 September, 1917 and for the 6-in guns on 25 October, 1917.[5]
Torpedo Control
Transmitting Stations
Dreyer Table
These ships had no fire control tables.[6]
Fire Control Instruments
Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 36.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 46.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917, p. 76.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
- ↑ The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
- ↑ absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
Bibliography
- Template:BibUKARTS1915
- 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
