"WW1 ship turret location code" Topic

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Minis is my Waterloo	24 Dec 2016 2:05 p.m. PST
Can anyone recommend a good reference to get the turret location code for WW1 ships? I've googled and searched this several ways and just haven't found a good answer. I understand the basic A, B, X, Y but how about all the wing turrets, midships centerline, etc? Thanks in advance! Rob
Schogun	24 Dec 2016 2:46 p.m. PST
No reference to cite, but found this: "I believe if there was just one centreline turret midships (Splendid Cat battlecruisers, Orion class battleships, KGV-class battleships, Iron Duke class battleships), it was designated Q – A,B,Q,Y on battlecruises, and A, B, Q, X, Y on battleships. On the earlier classes of all big gun battleships the port and starboard midships turrets were designated P and Q, so they had A, P, Q, X, Y." Don't know codes if there were 4 turrets midships. Perhaps A, P, Q, R, S, Y?
dragon6	24 Dec 2016 2:49 p.m. PST
A little asci artwork German turret designations "Anton" "Bruno" "Caesar" "Dora" "Emil" "Friedrich" "Gustav" Nassau, Helgoland and Blucher xxAxx xFxBx xExCx xxDxx Seydlitz, Moltke and Kaiser xxAxx xxxBx xExxx xxCxx xxDxx Konig xxAxx xxBxx xxxxx xxCxx xxxxx xxDxx xxExx Bayern, Derfflinger, Mackensen and Ersatz Yorck xxAxx xxBxx xxCxx xxDxx British system forward turrets A,B,C,D,E midships turrets O,P,Q,R,S aft turrets V,W,X,Y,Z except Agincourt A Monday B Tuesday P Wednesday Q Thursday X Friday Y Saturday Z Sunday
troopwo	25 Dec 2016 9:27 a.m. PST
Funny Agincourt came right to mind.
SaltyDog	25 Dec 2016 2:44 p.m. PST
I believe the smaller batteries were nominated as P1, P2 etc for for Port side Batteries and S1, S2 etc for the the Starboard side. This was certainly the case for the 40/60 Batteries on HMAS Melbourne. I used to be a loader on P2.
Sailor Steve	29 Dec 2016 1:10 p.m. PST
On Dreadnought, the Bellerophons and St. Vincents the centerline turrets were A, X and Y, with the wing turrets being P and Q. So: -A- P-Q -X- -Y- Interestingly, the pre-Dreads were just the opposite. The forward turret/barbette was 'Fore' and the after turret was 'Aft', with the hull-mounted 6" guns being lettered, alternating port and starboard: FORE A1-B1 A2-B2 P1-Q1 P2-Q2 X1-Y1 X2-Y2 -AFT- Dragon6's charts are accurate, but it might help to simply remember that German guns went around in a clockwise circle

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