Can someone recommend some decent British naval ordnance reference documents please.
Ideally projectiles from WWII onwards........
Cheers
Pete
Ideally projectiles from WWII onwards........
Cheers
Pete
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British Naval Ordnance Reference Documents Required
- Thread starter peteblight
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Richard709
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Good Luck, British naval ordnance reference material is scarce on a good day. A starting point for post WW11 would be BR 932 dtd 1945, Available in the downloads section, the next issue if you can find a copy is BR 932 dtd 1965 ( subject to copyright?) which was used well into the 1970's - 1980's, as you get closer to the present day the Navy and RNAD's moved away from complete manuals on ordnance to individual publications for each weapon type. The other problem you have is that the Navy and former RNAD's have a thing called a shredder with an insatiable apatite for anything that you or I would like to keep for reference.
other BR's to look for,
BR 1331 - ? Ordnance/Gunnery???
BR 1632 - Weights & Dimensions of Naval Armament stores and Gunnery Equipment.
BR 1837 (7) Yocabulary of Naval Armament Stores, part 7.
BR 1898 - Gunnery Manual Vol 2 , part 31.
BR 8542 - Naval Gun & Rocket Fuzes.
I am not sure what BR 1331 is but it is a Naval Ordnance/Gunnery reference Manual of some sort. Civilian books on Naval Ordnance also seem to be scarce as well, lots of books on the ships with just a passing reference to the armaments carried.
Richard
other BR's to look for,
BR 1331 - ? Ordnance/Gunnery???
BR 1632 - Weights & Dimensions of Naval Armament stores and Gunnery Equipment.
BR 1837 (7) Yocabulary of Naval Armament Stores, part 7.
BR 1898 - Gunnery Manual Vol 2 , part 31.
BR 8542 - Naval Gun & Rocket Fuzes.
I am not sure what BR 1331 is but it is a Naval Ordnance/Gunnery reference Manual of some sort. Civilian books on Naval Ordnance also seem to be scarce as well, lots of books on the ships with just a passing reference to the armaments carried.
Richard