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Naval Gunnery
A Description and History
of the
Fighting Equipment of a
Man-of-War
by
Captain H. Garbett, R. N.
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Publisher and place of
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Dimensions in inches (to
the nearest quarter-inch) |
London: George Bell and Sons |
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4¾ inches wide x 7¼ inches tall |
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Edition |
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Length |
1897 First Edition |
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[xiv] + 360 pages |
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Original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt.
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Contents |
Please see below for details. Note that there
is one full-page illustration ("6-inch Gun on Vavasseur Broadside Mounting"
facing page 142 and shown below) which is not mentioned in the Table of
Contents.
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Naval Gunnery
Contents
I. Naval gunnery up to the period of the
Russian War
II. The first introduction of rifled guns — the Armstrong
breech-loading and other systems
III. The adoption of muzzle-loading rifled guns, their
construction, rifling, mounting, etc.
IV. General remarks on breech-loading rifled guns, from their
re-introduction in 1879
V. Remarks on the construction of breech-loading guns
(continued)
VI. The different natures of breech-loading guns in the Navy,
their characteristics, etc
VII. Naval gun-mountings of the present day
VIII. Quick-firing guns
IX. Quick-firing guns (continued)
X. Magazines, shell-rooms, ammunition supply to guns, and
loading arrangements
XI. Sights, the director, firing arrangements, and conning tower
XII. Powder and cordite
XIII. Projectiles
XIV. Fuzes
XV. The development of the modern battleship
XVI. The fighting organization of a battleship, and the men who
fight the guns
XVII. Concluding remarks
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PLATES.
1. H.M.S. Majestic.
Flag-ship of Channel Squadron Frontispiece
2. H.M.S. Victoria firing one of her 111-ton Guns, from an
instantaneous photograph
3. Quarter-deck of H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, showing 67 -ton Guns
in after Barbette
4. H.M.S. Benbow, showing 111-ton Gun in after Barbette
5. Quarter-deck of H. M. S. Royal Sovereign, looking forward,
showing after Barbette and Lower Fighting Top
6. 6-Pounder Quick-firing Gun. No. 1 Laying the Gun
7. 6-inch Quick-firing Gun on Upper Deck Mounting, secured
inboard
8. 6-inch Quick-firing Gun on Upper Deck Mounting, Breech Open
9. Company of Bluejackets at Cutlass Drill. "Point"
10. Battalion Drill. Forming Square
11. Field-Gun Drill
12. Cutlass Drill on Quarter-deck of Royal Sovereign. "Slope
Swords ''
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE
TEXT.
1. Gun recovered from Wreck of the
Mary Rose ; temp. Henry VIII
2. Petrieroe a Braga and the Moscolo
3. 32-Pounder Carronade
4. Hidden's Gun -Lock
5. Brass Tangent Sight
6. 32-Pounder Gun, Working with Reduced Crew of Nine Men.
"Elevate"
7. Marked Quoin and Bed
8. 32-Pounder Gun's Crew, Close Up
9. 32-Pounder Gun's Crew. Extreme Train " Right "
10. 32-Pounder Gun's Crew. Extreme Train "Left"
11. 40-Pounder Armstrong Gun
12. Polygroove Rifling of Early Armstrong Guns
13. Vent-Piece
14. 40-Pounder Breech-Screw, Tappet Ring, and Levers
15. Armstrong Barrel-Headed Sights
16. The Shunt Groove
17. The Plain Groove
18. 64-Pounder Gun. Earliest Pattern
19. 64-Pounder Gun. Latest Pattern
20. The Woolwich Groove
21. Maitland Muzzle-loading Groove
22. Section of 80-ton Gun, showing Method of Building Up
23. Breech-piece in Coil and ready for shrinking
24. Trunnion Ring
25. Trunnion Ring and Jacket
26. The Cascable
27. 100-Pounder Smooth-Bore Gun, Mounted on Wooden Carriage and
Slide
28. Wooden Slide for Heavy Guns
29. Compressor
30. Iron Carriage and Slide for 7-inch and 9-inch Guns
31. Upper Face of Slide
32. Cross Section of Carriage, showing Elswick Plate Compressor
33. Iron Carnage for 7-inch Gun
34. 18-ton Gun on Scott Broadside Mounting
35. The Bow Compressor, Invented hy Rear- Admiral Scott
36. 25-ton Muzzle-loading Gun, as Mounted in Turret of H.M.S.
Glatton
37. The " Cup " Obturator 86
38. The De Bange Pad and Obturator
39. Breech Jacket and Screw
40. 9.2-inch 22-ton Gun
41. The 16-5-inch 111-ton Gun
42. 6-inch Hand-worked Breech Mechanism. Woolwich Design
43. 9-2-inch and 10-inch Hand- worked Breech Mechanism. Woolwich
Design
44. Hydraulic Breech Mechanism for 67-ton Guns. End View
45. Hydraulic Breech Mechanism for 67-ton Guns, Section
46. 6-inch Breech-loading Gun on Vavasseur C. P. Mounting
47. Live Roller Ring
48. Turret of H.M.S. Thunderer, showing Mounting of 10-inch
Breech-loading Gun
49. Hydraulic Mounting for Turret Gun, showing Recoil and
Elevating Presses
50. Maxim Gun on Naval Mounting
51. Maxim Gun
52. Breech Mechanism pf Hotchkiss 3-Pounder Quick-firing Gun
53. 6-Pounder Quick-firing Gun on Elswick Automatic Recoil
Mounting
54. 6-inch Elswick Quick-firing Gun, Breech open, ready for
Loading
65. Section of 6-inch Quick-firing Wire Gun
56. Electrical and Percussion Firing Gear for Quick-firing Guns
57. 4.7 -inch Quick-firing Gun
58. 6-inch Quick-firing Gun on Centre Pivot Pedestal Mountings
59. Elswick New Breech Mechanism for Quick-firing Ordnance
60. Cylindrical Cartridge Case
61. " A " Cartridge Case
62. Hydraulic Rammer
63. H Speed Sight
64. Fore Sight
65. Side View of Fore Sight
66. " Grenfell " Night Sight
67. Ibid
68. Powders and Cordite
69. Chain and Bar Shot
70. Caffin's Grape Shot
71. Boxer Shrapnel. First Pattern
72. Diaphragm Shrapnel Shell
73. Carcase
74. Ground Light Ball
75. Parachute Light Ball
76. Armstrong 12-pounder Case Shot
77. Armstrong Segment Shell
78. Illustrating Studs for Increasing Twist of Rifling
79. Common Shell, Studless, 10-inch K. M. L.
80. Shrapnel Shell, Studless, 10-inch K. M. L.
81. Palliser Shot, B. L., 12-inch Section
82. Case Shot, B. L., 13-5-inch Section
83. Shrapnel Shell, B. L., 5-inch Section
84. Cartridge, Nordenfelt Quick-firing 6-Pounder
85. Cartridge, S. A. Ball, Martini-Henry
86. Cartridge, S. A. Ball, Magazine Rifle, Cordite
87. 24-Pounder War Rocket
88. Large Mortar Time Fuze
89. 15-Second Wood Time Fuze
90. 15-Second Wood Time Fuze with Detonator Section
91. Armstrong E. Time Fuze
92. Sensitive Time Fuze, " Middle "
93. Moorsom Percussion Fuze. Section
94. Pettman's G. S. Percussion Fuze
95. R. L. Percussion Fuze
96. Fuze, Direct Action
97. Fuze, Percussion, Small
98. Hotchkiss Base Percussion Fuze
99. Nordenfelt Percussion Base Fuze
100. Armstrong Base Fuze
101. (Medium) Armstrong Time and Concussion Fuze
102. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of H.M.S. Bellerophon
103. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of H.M.S. Alexandra
104. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of H.M.S. Devastation
105. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of H.M.S. Colossus
106. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of " Admiral " class
107. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of H.M.S. Nile and Trafalgar
108. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of Royal Sovereign class
109. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of Majestic class
110. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of French battleships Amiral-Baudin and Formidable
111. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of French battleships of Neptune class
112. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of French battleships of Bouvet class
113. Profile and Deck Plans, showing Disposition of Armour and
Guns, of French battleships of Charlemagne class
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Naval Gunnery
Preface
This work has been written, not for
experts, but to give the general public some information on the
all-important subject of the armament of our ships of war, which
they may not be in a position to obtain conveniently for themselves.
There is much that is not original in the book', as it is, from its
very nature, a compilation in the main from the standard works and
text-books on gunnery, which are not as a rule available for use by
the man in the street. My aim has been, therefore, to trace the
history of naval gunnery from the date when guns are first mentioned
as having been used on board ships down to our own time, and to put
into a readable form enough of the heavy matter contained in the
standard text-book to give non-professional readers a fair insight
into the causes which have brought us from the smooth-bore
muzzle-loading 68-pounder, the heaviest gun in existence at the time
of the Russian War, to the breech-loading 111-ton guns of the Sans
Pareil and Benhow, and from the smooth-bore 32-pounder of the same
period to the 6-inch quick-firing gun of to-day; and also to give
some idea of how the guns on board men-of-war are now constructed,
mounted and worked, and how complex but formidable a fighting
machine' is the battleship of the present day, when compared to the
wooden ships of the line and frigates of only thirty years ago.
Great as have been the changes and improvements in everything
connected with naval gunnery during the last thirty years, there is
as yet no appearance , of finality; every new ship sees some
improvement effected in the mounting or method of working her guns
such as the substitution of electrical for hydraulic power in some
of our newest ships, so that it is impossible that any book on
gunnery can be quite up to date ; I have, however, added as far as
possible the accounts of improvements, gathered from the reports of
the gun trials of our latest ships, which have appeared in the
columns of the “Times” and other sources.
I am greatly indebted to Commander E. Lloyd, R.N., and Mr. Hadcock,
for their kind permission to reproduce any plates I wished from
their work on “ Artillery, its Progress, and Present Position,” and
to avail myself of Information contained in that book; much of the
details in regard to the hydraulic and Vavasseur mountings and
quick-firing guns have been compiled from that valuable work. My
thanks are due also to the Inspector-General of Ordnance for
permission to reproduce from the Service Text-books, also to the
Maxim and Hotchkiss Companies for the same permission, while I have
received much valuable assistance from Captain H. Grenfell, R.H.,
Commander A. E. A. Grant, R.N., Captain Prinsep, R. A., and
Lieutenant P. N. Wright, R.N. The profiles and deck plans of ships
in the chapter on “ Battleships ” have been reproduced from the “
Marine Almanach,” permission to do so having been most courteously
accorded me by the Austrian Imperial Hydrographical Department at
Pola.
The Author.
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