NAVAL GUNNERY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 5

NAVAL GUNNERY.

SIR PERCY SCOTT'S FIRE DIRECTOR. ADMIRALTY TRIALS. EFFICIENCY INCREASED 400 PER CENT. fly Telegrwph—Press Aasool&Uon—Copyright London, January 2. The "Daily Telegraph" says that.Sir Poroy Scott's baronetcy is regarded as confirmation' of tho report that tho Admiralty has adopted his fire director. Tho equipment of battleships and bactlecruisers with tho director will involve an outlay of at loast half, a million. An exhaustive trial has proved that it has increased tho firing efficiency four hundred per cent. I r REPORTED ACCEPTANCE. .(Roo. January 3, 9.30 p.m.) London, January S. The "Daily News" states that the Admiralty has adopted Vice-Admiral Scott's flro director for all Dreadnoughts. A REMARKABLE TEST. 'A' furthor report from Berehavcn (saya "Tho Times" of November 10) stntos that tho result of tho comparative tests whioh havo been held between tho battleships Thunderer and Orion is" to establish dofinitely the superiority of Sir Pofoy Scott's system of dii'eotor firing ovor that hitherto in uso. For four years .it has been questioned whether tho,new method was superior to tho old. - , To settle the matter conclusively the "Admiralty ordered tho experiments to take place .'between: the Thunderer, which was fitted with tho now invention, and tho Orion, which was not. Tho two yesspls wore ordered to firo at tho eamo timo with the saino range and targets, and to mnko tho trial as effective as possible it was ordered to bo held in the Atlantic in rough weather, not necessarily in a storm, but with the ships rolling at least five' degrees each way. Under those conditions tho Thunderer made five times as many hits as tho Orion, and completely eclipsed all provious records of firing, including those obtained in fino weather. It' is said, that tho broadsides of tho Thunderer, sometimes from five and sometimes from 10 guns, seemed to rain on tho target.