Triumph Class Battleship (1903)

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The two Triumph class battleships (called Swiftsure class in many sources) were pre-dreadnoughts originally ordered for Chile, but purchased instead by Great Britain while under construction.

Fire Control Systems

Details on this class are fairly sparse, as they were originally produced for Chile and their 10-in main battery made them such oddities in the Royal Navy that they were seemingly omitted from Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914.

Their particulars very loosely resembled those of the Duncan class.[Inference]

Rangefinders

Evershed Bearing Indicators

Local Control in Turrets

Directors

These ships never received directors for main or secondary batteries[1].

Torpedo Control

Transmitting Stations

Dreyer Table

These ships never received Dreyer tables[2].

Miscellaneous

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Director Firing Handbook, 1917, pp. 142-3.
  2. Handbook of Capt. F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1914). Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914. G. 01627/14. C.B. 1030. Copy 1235 at The National Archives. ADM 186/191.
  • Template:BibUKDirectorFiringHandbook1917
  • 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.



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