ABSTRACT

This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables.

chapter 1|17 pages

OLD CONTROVERSIES, NEW HISTORIES

chapter 2|19 pages

LONG-RANGE NAVAL GUNNERY

chapter 3|41 pages

PROGRESS IN GUNNERY

chapter |56 pages

4A.C. AND ARGO

chapter 5|48 pages

THE DREYER TABLES

chapter 6|29 pages

INFLUENCES AND CHOICES

chapter 7|14 pages

INTO BATTLE

chapter 8|52 pages

JUTLAND AND AFTER

chapter 9|19 pages

AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE

chapter |1 pages

APPENDIX

chapter |5 pages

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY