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    The Vickers Range Clock was a clockwork device used by the Royal Navy for continuously calculating the range to an enemy ship. In 1903, Percy Scott described...
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    target ship. It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock, to generate range and deflection data so the gun sights of the ship could...
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  • 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun Admiralty Fire Control Table - retired Vickers range clock - retired British 18 inch torpedo British 21 inch torpedo British...
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    During the 1920s, Vickers developed the Vickers range clock (Predictor No 1), an electro-mechanical computer that took height and range data from an optical...
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    target ship. It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock to generate range and deflection data so the gun sights of the ship could...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Dreadnought (1906)
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Seawolf (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. One of nine...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Steadfast (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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    into a Dumaresq mechanical computer and electrically transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Sterling (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Scout (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for Bellerophon-class battleship
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for Colossus-class battleship (1910)
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Sirdar (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Neptune (1909)
    into a Dumaresq mechanical computer and electrically transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position...
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  • Thumbnail for Orion-class battleship
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Tintagel (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down on 10 September 1917 during the First World War by Swan...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Saladin (1919)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Scotsman (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Seabear (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for Vickers Wellington
    The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Searcher (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. One of nine...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Stonehenge (1919)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down by Palmers at their dockyard in Jarrow, Stonehenge, the...
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  • Thumbnail for Invincible-class battlecruiser
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station located beneath each spotting top where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for Percy Scott
    device, later developed by Vickers and Scott as the Vickers range clock, that automatically kept track of the changing range to an enemy ship. During a...
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  • Thumbnail for Indefatigable-class battlecruiser
    transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station (TS) located beneath each spotting top where it was converted into range and deflection...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Trojan
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Trojan was...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Sesame (1918)
    torpedo to be carried. Fire control included a single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Trinidad (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Trinidad was...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (1918)
    control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The destroyer was crewed by 90 officers and ratings. Simoom was...
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