Patrick Macnamara
From The Dreadnought Project
Rear-Admiral SIR Patrick Macnamara, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy (11 January, 1886 – 4 April, 1957) was an officer of the Royal Navy.
He was Gunnery Officer of H.M.S. Tiger from March, 1915 to June, 1919, as well as Executive Officer from 1918 to 1919.
He invented some fire control aids, such as a time-of-flight watch (presumably, as an aid to spotting) around 1909, deployed perhaps by 1911,[1] and was trying to effect a pneumatic plotter so Mark IV Dreyer tables could automatically plot range cuts signaled from multiple sources, although on 6 July 1914 this ambitious design was rejected in favour of the humble (even clumsily so) Brownrigg Keyboard.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland, pp. 56, 63.
- ↑ Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland, p. 171.
Bibliography
- Template:BibBrooksDreadnoughtGunnery
- "Rear-Admiral Macnamara" (Obituaries). The Times. Monday, 8 April, 1957. Issue 53810, col A, pg. 14.
Service Record
- The National Archives. ADM 196/50.
