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A ship's bell is a bell on a ship that is used for the indication of time as well as other traditional functions. The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze, and normally has the ship's name engraved or cast on it.
Ship's bells are a system to indicate the hour by means of bells. This system is widely used aboard ships to regulate the sailor's duty-watches. Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of the bell do not accord to the number of the hour.
An explanation of the watch system and ringing the ship's bell to establish the times used in historic naval fiction books.
Mariners have used a unique bell code to tell time at sea for hundreds of years. The code is based on the crew’s typical routine while the vessel is at sea. A ship, at sea, requires constant attention throughout the day’s twenty-four hours. The day is therefore divided into six four-hour periods, each called a “watch.”
ship’s bell, bell used as early as the 15th century to sound the time on board ship by striking each half hour of a watch. As this practice served to regulate the rhythm of daily life for sailors, naval tradition came to regard the ship’s bell as the “soul” of the vessel.
6 dni temu · Watches and bells. Note: all times are based on the 24 hour clock, midnight to midnight. But, see Nautical time and civil date and GMT, Universal, Civil and Atomic. Also, this page describes the traditional naval and merchant watchkeeping system; while much of it is still completely valid, some variations have been introduced since 1964, e.g ...
28 lis 2009 · Most “domestic” ship’s bell clocks do not denote true nautical time because they delete the dog watch sequence. But the clocks are prized for their elegant ability to strike the time in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with the odd bells at the end of the sequence.
