Gorgon Class Battleship (1914)

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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 broadside tubes forward undepressed and bearing 90. Impulse from Elswick H.P. air.[1]

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.[2]

Designs for the 9.2-in guns were called for on 12 September, 1917 and for the 6-in guns on 25 October, 1917.[3]

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[4]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 36.
  2. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
  3. The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships, 1919, p. 15.
  4. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

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