TY - GEN T1 - Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland : the question of fire control T2 - Cass series--naval policy and history ; A1 - Brooks, John, 1942- LA - English PP - London ; New York PB - Routledge YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm62267917 AB - This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that, despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book pro. OP - 321 CN - VF520 .B76 2005eb SN - 0203316207 SN - 9780203316207 SN - 0714657026 SN - 9780714657028 SN - 9781135765545 SN - 1135765545 SN - 9781135765491 SN - 1135765499 SN - 9781135765538 SN - 1135765537 SN - 9780415407885 SN - 0415407885 SN - 0429230214 SN - 9780429230219 SN - 1280241977 SN - 9781280241970 SN - 9786610241972 SN - 661024197X KW - Great Britain. : Royal Navy : Ordnance and ordnance stores : History : 20th century. KW - Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford, : 1866-1937. KW - Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford, : 1866-1937 KW - Great Britain. : Royal Navy KW - Fire control (Naval gunnery) : History : 20th century. KW - Jutland, Battle of, 1916. KW - Battleships : Great Britain : History : 20th century. KW - Battleships : Germany : History : 20th century. KW - Conduite de tir (Marine) : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Bataille du Jutland, 1916. KW - Cuirassés : Grande-Bretagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cuirassés : Allemagne : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - HISTORY : Military : World War I. KW - Battleships KW - Fire control (Naval gunnery) KW - Armed Forces : Ordnance and ordnance stores KW - Atlantic Ocean : North Sea KW - Germany KW - Great Britain KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic book. KW - History ER -