Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines, and ASW Weapons of All Nations: An Illustrated Directory

1243 Pages·2011·46.14 MB·English

by  Norman Friedman

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)