Scott Class Flotilla Leader (1917)

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Ten flotilla leaders of the Scott Class were ordered late in the war, but though only two were canceled outright, few of those launched saw service before the end of the war.

Machinery

Generators

In 1916, it was stated that flotilla leaders have two 26.25 kw dynamos arranged in parallel with an additional 9 kw oil-fired set for emergency use.[1] It is likely that this applied to this class.

Armament

Guns

Torpedoes

The ships mounted two Triple Revolving Above Water tubes on the centerline.[2]

Directors

On 26 January, 1918, Scott had her director's tilt test performed at Portsmouth.[3]

Torpedo Control

Torpedo Control Circuits in Later Flotilla Leaders and "W" class T.B.D.s[4]

Flotilla leaders and "S", "W" and "V" class destroyers had nearly identical torpedo control facilities, with sighting positions on both sides of a bridge that had been enlarged from earlier classes with firing pushes and keys for sounding buzzers at the tubes. The order and deflection transmitters were situated centrally on a panel on the bridge, between the two sights.[5]

The Scott class were also equipped with Chadburn's Mechanical Order and Deflection Telegraphs and battery-worked electrical firing and firing gongs.[6]

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[7]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916. p. 120.
  2. March. British Destroyers. Plate 24/A.
  3. Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers, 1918, p. 49.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 210. Plate 82.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 210.
  6. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1917. p. 210, Plate 82.
  7. Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1910). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909. Copy No. 173 is Ja 345a at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1918). Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918. C.B. 1456. Copy No. 10 at Admiralty Library, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.


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