Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Tribute - Cecil Horton - Father of British Naval Radar
• Development and Installation of British Naval Radar - Some Significant Milestones
• Notes on the Contributors
• PART I RADAR EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENTS, 1935-45
• Editorial Note
• 1 The Origins and Development of Radar in the Royal Navy, 1935-1945, with Particular Reference to Decimetric Gunnery Equipments
• JF Coales
• Summary
• Introduction
• The research background, 1915-35
• The formative years, 1935-37
• The 1937 reorganisation of Naval radar research
• Preparing for War, 1938-9
• Early developments in 50-cm radar equipment
• Wartime developments
• The need for a surface detection capability
• The small-ship radar requirement, 1940
• The requirement for gunnery and fire-control radar (50cm)
• Development of Naval gunnery and fire-control radar systems
• Trails of main armament and high-angle director radars
• The birth of Naval 10-cm radar
• The application of 10-cm radar in the U-boat war
• Parallel developments
• Gunnery radar developments and improvements, 1942 onwards
• 2 Basic Science and Research for Naval Radar, 1935-1945
• BW Lythall
• Summary
• Early history - and two missed opportunities
• The invention of radar
• The multiple-cavity anode magnetron
• The environment for research
• 1938-42
• 1942-5
• The patterns of research
• Research themes
• The need to predict performance
• Early methods of height estimation
• Research on the radar environment
• Interference with the environment:anti-jamming research
• Interaction between theory and experiment
• 3 Valve Developments for Naval Radar Applications, 1935-45
• FM Foley
• Summary
• Introduction
• Early history of the valve section, HM Signal school
• Silica as a valve-envelope material
• Silica-valve technology
• Silica valves for radio transmitters
• Silica valves for radar
• Output power valves
• Pulse modulators
• Low-Power RF valves
• Mixers
• General-purpose valves
• Cahtode ray valves
• Appendix 1 HM Signal School Staff working on valve development up to 1945
• Appendix 2 Silica valve types
• 4 Royal Navy Metric Warning Radar, 1935-45
• JS Shayler
• Summary
• Introduction
• Types 79X and 79Y
• Type 79Z
• Type 279
• Types 79B/279B
• Type 281
• Type 281B
• Type 281BQ
• Type 286
• Type 290
• Type 291
• Type 960
• Postscript
• Appendices
• 5 Development of Naval Warning and Tactical Radar Operating in the 10cm band, 1940-45
• CA Cochrane
• Summary
• Preface
• Introduction
• Origins of the first Naval cm-radar
• The first operational centimetric radar
• Technical constraints and characteristics of Type 271X
• In the wake of HMS Orchis
• Coast and harbour defence applications
• Types 271,272, 273 in service, 1941-2
• Anti-submarine range performance of 5KW centimetric radar
• The High power magnetrons
• The Mark 4 development: Types 271Q and 273Q
• the Mark 5 development
• The Mark 5 experimental shore trails - Type 277T
• The Mark 5 experimental shipborne radar - Type 277X
• Sea reflection and target indication Types 276 and 293
• WS Tactical radar - low air warning - heightfinding - Type 277
• Further development of Type 277 - Types 277P and 277Q
• Centimetric fighter direction (FD) radar
• Revised proposals for FD radar
• The unknown factor in Type 980 (982) performance
• Conclusions
• Appendices
• 6 The Royal Navy and IFF - Identification Friend or Foe, 1935-45
• JS Shayler
• Summary
• Introduction
• The Beginning
• IFF Mark I
• IFF Mark II
• IFF Mark III
• IFF Mark IV
• IFF Mark V
• Postscript
• PART II RADAR SHIP-FITTING AND MAINTENANCE 1939-45
• Editorial Note
• 7 Radar Ship-Fitting and Maintenance in the Royal Navy 1939-45: Experience at Scapa Flow, May 1940 to April 1942
• BGH Rowley
• Summary
• Appointment to HM Signal School
• Appointment to the staff in C-in-C, Home Fleet
• Scapa Flow
• Expanding activities
• Summer 1940
• Autumn 1940
• Early 1941
• Summer 1941
• Early 1942
• 8 Radar Maintenance at Sea: A Personal Story, 1940-5
• RA Laws
• Summary
• Introduction
• Author's radar experience
• Personnel
• Fitting out and commissioning
• Acceptance of a new ship
• At sea
• handbooks and test gear
• Spares
• Calibration and setting up
• Preventative maintenance
• Malfunctions
• Breakdowns
• Modifications
• Ancillary services
• Tribute to the service
• Appendices
• 9 Naval Radar, Fitting Policy, Materiel Procurement, Installation, Sea-Trials and Shore-Based Maintenance
• AM Patrick
• Summary
• Introduction
• Formulation of Admiralty radar-fitting policy and programmes
• Procurement of radar equipment
• From Naval Stores to dockyards/shipyards
• The ship fitting-out task, 1939-45 an overview
• Pre-fitting work on-board ship
• Radar installation, testing and trials
• The Port Radar Officer Organisation
• The Radar officer organisation
• Conclusion
• Postscript
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index