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==Fire Control Systems==
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===Rangefinders===
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===Directors===
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====Main Battery====
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The ships were fitted with a cam-type tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun in 'X' turret<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  pp. 88, 142.</ref>. 
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The main battery could be divided into forward ('A', 'B' & 'Q') and aft ('X' & 'Y') groups for split director control<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917'', p. 88.</ref>.
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A [[C.O.S.]] in the [[TS]] afforded these options<ref>''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  p. 88.</ref>:
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# all turrets on aloft tower
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# all turrets on directing gun
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# forward group on aloft tower, aft group on directing gun
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====Secondary Battery====
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The 4-in guns never had directors installed<ref>absent from list in ''The Director Firing Handbook, 1917''.  pp. 143.</ref>.
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===Torpedo Control===
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===Transmitting Stations===
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These ships discarded the second [[TS]] found in earlier dreadnoughts and relied on a single TS<ref>''Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', pp. 6-7.</ref>.
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===Dreyer Table===
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[[H.M.S. King George V (1911)|''King George V'']] had a Mark III Dreyer table while the other three units received Mark II Dreyer tables<ref>''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref><ref>Brooks, John. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland'', p. 166.</ref>.  As of June 1918, they had not been provided Dreyer Turret Control Tables<ref>absent from list in ''Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables'', p. 3.</ref>.
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===Miscellaneous===
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==See Also==
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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Revision as of 17:23, 15 August 2009

Fire Control Systems

Rangefinders

Directors

Main Battery

The ships were fitted with a cam-type tripod-type director in a light aloft tower on the foremast along with a directing gun in 'X' turret[1].

The main battery could be divided into forward ('A', 'B' & 'Q') and aft ('X' & 'Y') groups for split director control[2].

A C.O.S. in the TS afforded these options[3]:

  1. all turrets on aloft tower
  2. all turrets on directing gun
  3. forward group on aloft tower, aft group on directing gun

Secondary Battery

The 4-in guns never had directors installed[4].

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

These ships discarded the second TS found in earlier dreadnoughts and relied on a single TS[5].

Dreyer Table

King George V had a Mark III Dreyer table while the other three units received Mark II Dreyer tables[6][7]. As of June 1918, they had not been provided Dreyer Turret Control Tables[8].

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. p. 88.
  4. absent from list in The Director Firing Handbook, 1917. pp. 143.
  5. Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914, pp. 6-7.
  6. Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.
  7. Brooks, John. Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland, p. 166.
  8. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1914). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. G. 01627/14. C.B. 1030. Copy 1235 at The National Archives. ADM 186/191. Template:BibBrooksDreadnoughtGunnery Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917 Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918

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