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bearing) and "dumaresq deflection" (or "speed across", the component perpendicular to the range rate). This was normally measured as the yards per minute in range and knots in deflection. Based on the time-of-flight using the instantaneous range between the two ships at the time of firing, these two measurements are added to the initial calculation of the firing solution to produce the corrections for motion.
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rate, implying the fire control staff of the ship would have no range clock at all and that this device was solely to give an idea of what deflection should be used on the gun sights. A further indication that these were to be used by less intensively trained personnel is that the dial plate helpfully features an image of a gun muzzle which is to be pointed toward the enemy ship.
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along a scale etched on this bar to indicate the ship's speed in knots. Suspended below the slider is a second bar, which recorded the speed and heading of the enemy ship by rotating and sliding against a similar scale to that on the main cross-bar. The result of these two settings are such that the
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The central coordinate plate also rotates, which is used to represent the current bearing to the target. When correctly set, the enemy pointer will point to a location on the coordinate plate. The coordinates can be read to directly provide the "range rate" (the component of motion along the line of
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The more sophisticated dumaresqs slowly died out after WWI, their functionality being manifested in other hardware. The design of the dumaresq was not well-suited to integration in larger schemes of automated fire control. A wind dumaresq, however, can still be found in the transmitting stations of
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An example of the
Spartan dumaresqs that survived beyond World War I, these were very simple, with fixed cross-bars and an own-speed of 12 knots that could not be altered. The standard speed suggests it was intended for use in transport type ships in convoy. The dial plate lacks markings for range
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alongside the main one to track and nullify the influence of cross-range winds on the shells as they flew toward the target. In the wind dumaresq, the vector bars subtracted own ship's motion from the real wind vector to produce the relative wind vector, which was called "wind you feel". A rolling
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This model is the zenith in complexity for the dumaresq, and was created for use in the most modern Dreyer tables of WWI, the Mark IV and IV*. The electrical dumaresq's special features were very particular to its use in the Dreyer FCTs in which it was fitted, sitting atop a range clock. Like the
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Because the dumaresq is an analogue model of the relative motion of the two ships, it does not intrinsically favour which of its settings is an input and which is an output - one can use the centre bar to represent the enemy ship motion and the moving portions to represent the dumaresq ship. This
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The mark II Dumaresq was the same as the Mark I, but larger and was in production by
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along the speed-across axis could be spun to the present gun range and could quickly convert the speed-across to a gun deflection. That this was done by simple thumb work suggests that this dumaresq was meant to operate in the absence of advanced systems such as the
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