Line of Sight Indicator
The Line of Sight Indicator was a British Torpedo Control instrument, very similar to a Torpedo Director Pattern 2006 conceived around 1915 and intended to be mounted on the bridge of a light cruiser or destroyer. The intent was to permit these values to be passed on for placing on the sight at the tube.
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Design
It had a circular base plate fixed to indicate relative bearings from 0 to 180 degrees red and green. A torpedo bar graduated up to 48 knots could swing about to any bearing and be clamped by a screw. The enemy bar also pivoted at the center of the base and was graduated up to 40 knots. The sighting arm functioned as one would on a torpedo director, and a possible shot strip was clamped alongside.
A Robinson Disc permitted enemy inclination to be read off, and a second disc shows the director angle from 0 to 90 degrees. [2] From the illustration, however, it does not seem that the director angle would be more accurately noted than within 2 degrees or so.
History
The device was designed by Vernon and manufactured by Portsmouth Yard around 1915 and was to be supplied to all light cruisers of Blonde class and later and destroyers of "F" class and later. The First Light Cruiser Squadron was not to receive these, as they already were noted as having similar devices.[3]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, Plate 10.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 59.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915, p. 58.
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