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NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR ONE NAVAL WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR ONE Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations AN ILLUSTRATED DIRECTORY NORMAN FRIEDMAN Seaforth P U B L I S H I N G CONTENTS GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Units of Measurement PART I: GUNS Introduction I/1: British Guns I/2: German Guns I/3: US Guns I/4: French Guns I/5: Italian Guns I/6: Russian Guns I/7: Japanese Guns I/8: Austrian Guns I/9: Spanish Guns I/10: Swedish Guns I/11: Other Navies’ Guns PART II: TORPEDOES Introduction II/1: British Torpedoes II/2: German Torpedoes II/3: US Torpedoes II/4: French Torpedoes II/5: Italian Torpedoes II/6: Russian Torpedoes II/7: Japanese Torpedoes II/8: Austrian Torpedoes II/9: Swedish Torpedoes II/10: Other Navies’ Torpedoes PART III: MINES Introduction III/1: British Mines III/2: German Mines III/3: US Mines III/4: French Mines III/5: Italian Mines III/6: Russian Mines III/7: Japanese Mines III/8: Austrian Mines III/9: Swedish Mines III/10: Other Navies’ Mines PART IV: ASW WEAPONS Introduction IV/1: British ASW Weapons IV/2: German ASW Weapons IV/3: US ASW Weapons IV/4: French ASW Weapons IV/5: Italian ASW Weapons IV/6: Russian ASW Weapons IV/7: Austrian ASW Weapons SOURCES INDEX OF SHIPS GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS AA = anti-aircraft ADM = Admiral AMC = Armed Merchant Cruiser AP = armour-piercing APC = Armour-Piercing Capped (shell) ASW = anti-submarine warfare BAG = Ballon-Abwehr Geschütze (‘anti-balloon gun’) BAK = Ballonabwehrkanone (‘anti-balloon cannon’) BIR = Board on Industrial Research BL = breech-loading BuOrd = Bureau of Ordnance (US) CCP = Capped Common Pointed (shell) Cdr = Commander CI = cast iron CINO = Chief Inspector of Naval Ordnance CIW = Chief Inspector, Woolwich CNO = Chief of Naval Operations (US) Col = Colonel COW = Coventry Ordnance Works CPC = Common Armour-Piercing Capped (shell) crh = calibre radius head CSOF = Chief Superintendent RGF (q.v.) CSP = Chillingworth Smokeless Powder DAMS = Defensively-Armed Merchant Ship DCB = Distance-Controlled Boat DCT = Director Control Tower DGD = Director Gunnery Division DNA&T = Director of Naval Artillery and Torpedoes DNC = Director of Naval Construction DNI = Director of Naval Intelligence DNO = Director of Naval Ordnance DNP = dinitrophenyl DOD = Director of Operations Division DrL = Drilling Lafette (‘twin mount’) DTD = Director Trade Division DTM = Director Torpedoes and Mines EOC = Elswick Ordnance Company FY = financial year GDT = gyro director training HA = high angle HA = high angle HCP = hand-controlled power (gear) HE = high explosive K = Kanone (i.e. BL gun) KC = Krupp Cemented (armour) KMK = Kurze Marine Kanone (‘short naval gun’) KNC = Krupp Non-Cemented (armour) Lt = Lieutenant MGen = Major-General ML = Motor Launch ML = muzzle-loading MLR = muzzle-loading rifle MP = Mittelpivotlafette (‘centre pivot mount’) MTK = Morskoi Tekhnicheskii Komitet (‘Naval Technical Committee’) NGF = Naval Gun Factory (US) NMM = National Maritime Museum, London ONI = Office of Naval Intelligence (US) OpNav = Office of Operations (US) PDH = Portable Directional Hydrophones pdr(s) = pounder(s) PGS = Portable General Service (hydrophone set) QF = quick-firing QFC = quick-firing converted RADM = Rear Admiral RAF = Royal Air Force RAN = Royal Australian Navy RAOAZ = Stock Society of Ordnance Plants (Russian acronym) RCF = Royal Carriage Factory RF = rapid fire (i.e QF gun: US) RFC = Royal Flying Corps RGF = Royal Gun Factory RHA = Royal Horse Artillery RKL = Ringkanone RNAS = Royal Naval Air Service RP = rohr-pulver (‘tube powder’, i.e. German equivalent of Cordite) SA = semi-automatic SAP = semi armour-piercing SAPC = semi armour-piercing capped (shell) SC = solventless cordite SF = submerged fire (pistol) SK= Schnellade-Kanone (‘fast-loading gun’, i.e. QF) SL = side lug (torpedo) STCAN = Service Technique Construction et Armes Navales TAG = Torpedoabwehrkanone (‘anti-torpedo-boat cannon’) TR = tiro rapido (i.e. QF) TW = Torpedo Werkstatte (German Navy Torpedo Factory) VADM = Vice Admiral VCP = Vavasseur Centre Pivot (mounting)

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Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons, the mine and torpedo, as well as the first signs of the future potency of air power. Between 1914 and 1918 weapons development was both rapid and complex. This heavily illust

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