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Seven flotilla leaders of the Shakespeare Class were ordered late in the war, but only two were completed by the end of hostility and two were cancelled.

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

Fire Control

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

Gunnery Control

Control Positions

Control Groups

Directors

Main Battery

Secondary Battery

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships had no fire control tables.[2]

Fire Control Instruments

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1916, p. 120.
  2. absent from list in Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 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.
  • Template:BibUKDreyerTableHandbook1918

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