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The '''Torpedo Attack Table''' was a [[Torpedo Control]] teaching aid to practice torpedo attacks.
 
The '''Torpedo Attack Table''' was a [[Torpedo Control]] teaching aid to practice torpedo attacks.
  
==History and Deployment==
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==Final Design and Deployment==
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By mid 1919, twenty units of the approved design were being manufactured for allocation as follows: three to H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|''Vernon'']], two each to Port Edgar and Lyness depot bases, and one each to Immingham depot base, Dover depot base, [[H.M.S. Defiance (Torpedo Training School)|''Defiance'']], and depot ships ''Actaeon'', ''Apollo'', ''Woolwich'', ''Blake'', ''Diligence'', ''Greenock'', ''Sandhurst'', ''Hecla'', ''Dido'' and ''Blenheim''.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918'', p. 227.</ref>
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Each table was to be accompanied by a [[Torpedo Deflection Sight Mark III|T.D.S. Mark III]] and a Pattern 36 signalmen's instructional box.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918'', p. 228. (A.L.G. 10951/18)</ref>
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{{TBCTONE}} ARTS 1918 p 227-8 onward
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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Revision as of 15:07, 13 March 2011

The Torpedo Attack Table was a Torpedo Control teaching aid to practice torpedo attacks.

Final Design and Deployment

By mid 1919, twenty units of the approved design were being manufactured for allocation as follows: three to H.M.S. Vernon (Torpedo Training School)|Vernon]], two each to Port Edgar and Lyness depot bases, and one each to Immingham depot base, Dover depot base, Defiance, and depot ships Actaeon, Apollo, Woolwich, Blake, Diligence, Greenock, Sandhurst, Hecla, Dido and Blenheim.[4]

Each table was to be accompanied by a T.D.S. Mark III and a Pattern 36 signalmen's instructional box.[5]

[TO BE CONTINUED - TONE] ARTS 1918 p 227-8 onward

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, Plate 144.
  2. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, Plate 145.
  3. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, Plate 146.
  4. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 227.
  5. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1918, p. 228. (A.L.G. 10951/18)

Bibliography