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In 1896, {{UK-Swordfish}} and ''Spitfire'' were fitted with "Tower's steady platform search light" which proved "very satisfactory,"{{ARTS1896|p. ix}} having been improved since 1889 tests.<ref>See ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1890''</ref> In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, ''Spitfire'' was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel.  The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.{{ARTS1896|p. 51}}  
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In 1896, {{UK-Swordfish}} and ''Spitfire'' were fitted with [[Tower's Steady Platform]] search lights which proved "very satisfactory,"{{ARTS1896|p. ix}} having been improved since 1889 evaluations.  In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, ''Spitfire'' was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel.  The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.{{ARTS1896|p. 51}}  
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 12:29, 13 September 2012

H.M.S. Spitfire (1895)
Builder: Armstrong[1]
Ordered: 1893-94[2]
Laid down: 4 Jun, 1894[3]
Launched: 7 Jun, 1895[4]
Commissioned: Nov, 1896[5]
Broken up: 1912[6]

H.M.S. Spitfire was one of 42 destroyers of the A class.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Equipment

In 1896, Swordfish and Spitfire were fitted with Tower's Steady Platform search lights which proved "very satisfactory,"[7] having been improved since 1889 evaluations. In tests at Chatham on 13th October, 1896, Spitfire was moored in basin number 3 and rolled about 25 degrees while she shone her light on a hatch-painted test vessel. The light beam did not waver by more than a half degree during the test.[8]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 92.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 93.
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. p. ix.
  8. ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1896. p. 51.

Bibliography


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