Acorn Class Destroyer (1910)
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Twenty destroyers of the Acorn Class were completed between 1910 and 1912.
Armament
Guns
Two 4-in BL Mark VIII guns, fore and aft Two 12-pdr 12 cwt guns, one on each cheek
Torpedoes
Two single 21-in tubes on the centre line, firing the Mark II torpedo.[1]
Fire Control
By 1915, at least, these ships also had fixed voice pipes installed between decks with the last lengths being flexible (one voice pipe for gunnery, one for torpedoes) fitted between bridge and guns, torpedo tubes, and searchlights. A third voicepipe, entirely flexible, ran from bridge to the forward gun.[2]
Instruments
Rangefinders
Evershed Bearing Indicators
Gunnery Control
Control Positions
Control Groups
Directors
Torpedo Control
See Also
Footnotes
Bibliography
