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  • ...ool''' or '''Whale Island''' was the British [[Royal Navy]]'s main gunnery training establishment for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The foundation of a gunnery school in the [[Royal Navy]] has been attributed to Sir John Bechell and Captain W
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  • ...S. ''Vernon'' was selected to become the [[Royal Navy]]'s torpedo training school as a tender to ''Excellent''. ''Vernon'' was a fifty gun frigate designed ...ivities which were published in a series of [[Annual Report of the Torpedo School|annual reports]].
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  • '''H.M.S. ''Defiance''''' was one of the Royal Navy's torpedo training schools. It was based, until 1931, on the old ''Defiance'' launched in 186 In 1901, the school was noted as having or being slated to receive two Jackson, one Marconi and
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  • ...''''', an old 80-gun third-rate launched in 1815, became the first Gunnery Training ship at Plymouth. ...ame part of [[Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport]] as the [[Devonport Gunnery School]], under the general control of the Commodore-in-Command.{{NMI|Tuesday, 5 N
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  • #REDIRECT [[H.M.S. Actæon (Torpedo Training School)]]
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  • '''H.M.S. ''Valkyrie''''' was a [[Royal Navy]] onshore training establishment on the [[Isle of Man]], established about 1940.
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  • ...rtmouth in 1863, where practically all naval cadets received their initial training until 1905. With the introduction of the Selborne Scheme in 1903, Naval Ca
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  • ...oke out, Lewis was serving at Portsmouth as the Superintendent of Physical Training. An appointment to {{UK-Charybdis}} was considered in October 1914, but is ...ald Kelly|John D. Kelly]]'''|'''[[Portsmouth|In Command, Physical Training School, Portsmouth]]'''<br>7 Apr, 1914{{NLJul14|p. 392}} &ndash; ''c''. Oct, 1914|
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  • ...Fire Control Instruments, 1914'', Plate 46, ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916'', p. 145}} ...ng and Elevation Circuits'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913''. ]]
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  • ...be upgraded to 15-foot instruments, with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th [[File:ARTS1913Plate56.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Training and Elevation Circuits'''{{ARTS1913|Plate 56}} ]]
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  • ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th ...number 9 in all but {{UK-QueenElizabeth}}, which had [[Single Dial Turret Training Receiver|single dial types]], pattern number 8.{{DirectorH|pp. 144-6}}
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  • ...fire control outfits of these ships in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''. ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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  • ...ntrol system for this class is found in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1913''. It features descriptions of adapted forms of existing Barr and St ...f the mountings. The [[Training Receiver]]s were the [[Single Dial Turret Training Receiver|single dial type]], pattern number 7.{{DirectorH|pp. 144, 146}}
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  • ...ated near the assistant trainer's seat.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 19156'', p. 146.</ref> [[File:DFHPlate77.jpeg|thumb|240px|'''15-in Elevation & Training Circuits'''{{DirectorH|Plate 77}} ]]
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  • There is significant information on this in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.{{ARTS1915|p. 239}} ...ruments, probably also [[F.T. 24]], with new armoured hoods and racers and training driving the hood directly rather than through the rangefinder mounting. Th
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  • ...mens, in use in ''Dreadnought'' c 1911.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1911'', p. 95.</ref> ...Type T.G. 37 Mark II|| Barr and Stroud<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, Plate 82.</ref>
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  • ...he fastest possible salvo firing. ''Dreadnought'' used two three-cylinder training engines controlled by a two-position lever for direction and a hand-wheel o ...f the mountings. The [[Training Receiver]]s were the [[Single Dial Turret Training Receiver|single dial type]], pattern number 7.{{DirectorH|pp. 144, 146}}
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  • ...rey Otway Tupper|Reginald Tupper]] of [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], who conducted the gun trials, later recalled:
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  • ...Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 486.</ref>|note=ship is a gunnery training ship}} ...its own 8-cell battery.{{ARTS1916|Plate 73. ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915'', p. 239}}
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  • ...'''s Fire Control Diagram'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]] ...and wiring is spelled out in rich detail in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''. It is important to note that she received significant modificati
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  • ...'''s Fire Control Systems'''<br>As shown in ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''.]] ...f the mountings. The [[Training Receiver]]s were the [[Double Dial Turret Training Receiver|double dial type]], pattern number 11.{{DirectorH|pp. 144-6}}
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  • ...on the details of this class in their 1903 ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School''.{{ARTS1903|pp. 86-91}} ...The training motors ordinarily worked together, but either was capable of training the turret individually.{{ARTS1903|pp. 86-7}} The Ward-Leonard control sys
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  • ...rent class of officers. The War Staff is to be the means of preparing and training those officers who arrive, or are likely to arrive, by the excellence of th ...once a convenient and flexible machine for the elaboration of plans and a school of sound and progressive thought on naval science.
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  • It was described in the ''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1915''{{ARTS1915|p.53}} as a '''Torpedo Attack Trainer''', similar to the When the firing officer wants to fire, he calls it out (perhaps soon after training his tube or ordering a course change to bring sights on). The stopwatch an
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  • ...readnought'']], concentrated the fleet in home waters, and reorganised the training and distribution of personnel. Having retired in 1910, he was then instrum ...rpedo school was established in the hulk [[H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']] and subsequently became a separate command in 1876.
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  • ...A, p. 14.</ref> He was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877. He left on 24 July, 1 He returned home and was appointed to [[H.M.S. Excellent (Gunnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] at Portsmouth on 19 August, 1884,<ref>ADM 196/20.
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