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{ship
name=Shakespeare
name=Shakespeare
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pend=F.89 (Jan 1918){{DittColl|p. 71}}
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builder=[[Thornycroft]]{{DittColl|p. 71}}
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order=
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launch=1917
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comm=
fate=Handed over
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{ship
name=Wallace
name=Wallace
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pend=D.3A (Feb 1919){{DittColl|p. 71}}
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launch=1918
launch=26 10 1918{{DittColl|p. 71}}
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comm=
fatedate=20 3 1945{{DittColl|p. 71}}
}
}


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{ship
name=Keppel
name=Keppel
pend=
pend=D.84 (Apr 1925){{DittColl|p. 71}}
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laid=
launch=1920
launch=23 4 1920{{DittColl|p. 71}}
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comm=
fatedate=7 1945{{DittColl|p. 71}}
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{ship
{ship
name=Rooke
name=Rooke
pend=
pend=D.83 (Dec 1924){{DittColl|p. 71}}
builder=
builder="
order=
order=
laid=
laid=
launch=1920
launch=16 9 1920{{DittColl|p. 71}}
comm=
comm=
fate=Foundered
fate2=damaged at Algiers{{DittColl|p. 71}}
fatedate=9 11 1942{{DittColl|p. 71}}
}
}



Revision as of 17:55, 22 September 2012

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.
  • 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.


Shakespeare Class Flotilla Leader
Shakespeare Spenser Wallace Keppel Broke
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