Indefatigable Class Battlecruiser (1909)

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Fire Control Systems

Rangefinders

Directors

Main Battery

The ships were fitted with a tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun in the Y turret[1]. The battery was not divisible into for split director firing[2].

Secondary Battery

The 4-in broadside guns are not listed as ever having had directors installed[3].

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

As of 1917, the surviving units still carried the Mark I Dreyer tables they'd been outfitted with[4]. Indefatigable was lost with her Mark I table[5] at the Battle of Jutland.

The ships were never given Dreyer Turret Control Tables[6].

Miscellaneous

See Also

Footnotes

  1. The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 88, 142.
  2. The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. p. 88.
  3. The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 143.
  4. Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  5. Sumida, Jon. In Defence of Naval Supremacy p. 300.
  6. Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

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