ABSTRACT
Chapter 8 concluded that Beatty’s gunnery defeat in the Run to the South was due primarily to the consequences of his tactics, compounded by the inefficiency of his battlecruisers’ gunnery. However, to exonerate the British fire control from any significant part in the disaster, three further questions must be addressed. Did the fire control systems in Beatty’s ships add to the difficulties already imposed by his tactics? Did the Argo Clock Mark IV contribute to Queen Mary’s supposedly better shooting? And might the British battlecruisers have been more successful if they had been fitted with the whole Argo system with its truecourse plotter?
