![]() The central sighting scopes were 61 inches above and 46 inches aside the bore, and the side scopes were 43 inches above and 51.5 inches aside. Drift was allowed for by effectively inclining the periscope carrier 2.5°. MV was corrected by adjustable scale plate and deflection calibrated for 2450 fps at 5000 yards. There were no half-charge drums provided. Range drums were graduated for 2400 fps for full charge and 2025 fps for 3/4 charge, as well as for 6-pdr sub-calibre and. The deflection gearing constant was 56.25 with 1 knot being 2.56 arc minutes. The range dial was 20 inches in diameter rather than 14 inches as in some other sights to permit more precise setting, and the distance between 1,000 yard marks was 1 7⁄ 16 inches at 17,000 yards. The sights were cam-worked and capable of 15° elevation, but the central sights had "20 degree super-elevation strips". The 15-in guns were Mark I 42 calibre in Mark I mountings able to elevate 20° and depress 5°. This section is sourced by The Sight Manual, 1916 except as otherwise noted. RadioĪccording to the ambitions of 1909, these ships had Service Gear Mark II wireless upon completion. Two 150 kw oil generators and two 200 kw steam generators, with an additional 200 kw steam generator added in 1916 or later. Soon after Queen Elizabeth was completed, Sir Francis Bridgeman, who had been First Sea Lord when she was designed, wrote to his friend Jack Sandars that "I regard her & her sister ships as my special children." This pronouncement is interesting in light of his 1912 suggestion that the 1912 programme should be repeat Iron Dukes, and that the Queen Elizabeths be deferred until 1913. On 26 August Churchill replied, "Neither of the two ships will be proceeded with." Tudor, inquired of the First Lord and First Sea Lord as to whether this ship, to have been named Agincourt, and the other dockyard-built ship of that year's programme would be proceeded with. On 24 August the new Third Sea Lord, Frederick C. Moore, what increase of cost and decrease of armour would be required to raise her speed to that of the Tiger. On 11 May Churchill asked the Third Sea Lord, A. The third battleship of the 1914-1915 programme, to be laid down at Portsmouth, was to have been another Queen Elizabeth. The fact that oil-burning ships can refuel at sea, and thus avoid the growing submarine menace which will await them near their coaling bases, is a newly realised advantage of first importance. The argument for the design of the 'Queen Elizabeths' was fully explained to the Cabinet last year, and no doubt can be entertained of the decisive military advantages inherent in the creation of a fast division of vessels of the maximum fighting power. In a paper of 5 December, 1913, Churchill referred to: Borden, had suggested that these three ships might be called Acadia, Ontario, and Quebec. In November, 1912, the Prime Minister of Canada, Robert L. The Canadian battleships, to have been built in Britain but paid for by Canada, were never ordered. The battleships of the 1913-1914 programme became the Revenge class. It is proposed that the 3 Canadian ships, the Malay, and the 5 ships of this year shall also be of this design. In an undated 1913 memorandum the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston S. This design is to be regarded as secret, and neither the design as a whole nor any features of it should be mentioned, either inside or outside of this office, to anyone whatever except people actually engaged on the design. The Queen Elizabeths were designed under a heavy veil of secrecy, as shown by the following note in the class's cover:
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