Keeping the "bells" comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes
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A Sailor's Dictionary - Fram.NL  Any of a number of heavy, hook-shaped devices that is dropped over the side ... The thing rotting in the bilge of every racing yacht (unseen). ... of a refrigerator lamp for a period of 15 minutes after having been charged for two hours. .... The term "deep six" comes from the throwing of the lead to determine water ... Eight Bells:
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Iceberg spotted at 11:39 PM? | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board  Jul 12, 2014 ... I think that whoever was keeping the scrap log would have recorded ... True midnight would still have 23 minutes in the future at the crew's change of watch. .... Since Fleet refused to say, we are left having to rely on Scarrott's testimony. ... just after seven bells, which is sailor time for 11:30 p.m. Certainly the...
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Other Traditions of the United States Naval Services  Bells and Watches; Honors and Salutes; Mourning and Funerals ... The Royal Navy, however, starts over with one bell at 6:30 p.m. in the "last" (i.e., second) ... This process is a ritual throwback to the days when coming aboard a ship ... and fortifications as a form of salute goes back almost to the earliest days of naval guns.
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3 gongs not directly before collision? | Encyclopedia Titanica ...  May 26, 2016 ... Fleet, never heard the order over the phone, therefore we know that it wasn't made while ... and Lee never supports Fleet's claim of Lee noticing an early swing to port. ... The bells, phone call, turn order, and collision happened in the .... They continued every 30 minutes despite retarding of the crew's clock...
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jeopardy/3455_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  POTPOURRI | Keeping the "bells" comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes | an hourglass. right: Bob. Wrong: Value: $200.
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Drunken Sailor - History - As A Shanty - LiquiSearch  Ho! and up she rises,: Early in the morning. Although this is the earliest discovered published mention, there is some indication that the shanty is at least as old...
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Coxie.com - A Coxing Dictionary  This is great motivation and also a good way to update your crew. ... this when rowing up to the starting dock before a race, and also in the first 100 meters .... a head and the crew might be getting tierd and a bit sloppy I like to shout "Come on, Keep it ... And even though I didn't know much technical stuff yet, when he said it...
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Why do ships use 'port' and 'starboard' instead of 'left' and 'right?'
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History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia  For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time. ... Other ancient timekeeping devices include the candle clock, used in ancient ... The pendulum clock remained the most accurate timekeeper until the 1930s, ...... to keep the time of a fixed locationusually Greenwich Mean Timeallowing...
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Pollywog or Shellback: The Navy's Line Crossing Ceremony Revealed  Mar 25, 2013 ... Line crossing ceremonies have been a part of naval tradition for at ... When a ship crosses the equator, King Neptune comes aboard to ... On the open sea, even the leader of a great nation must answer to King Neptune. .... I went over the line the first time in 1969. Will never for get this time horned tradition.
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Customs - US Navy Hosting  Completing a watch with no incidents to report was "Eight bells and all is well." The practice ... The ship's boy kept time by using a half-hour glass. Each time the...
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The Bells - Eagle Poetry - Sites - Google  And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, ... It is written in iambic feet, but even looking beyond the meter is musical in...
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Ship's bell - Wikipedia  A ship's bell is used to indicate the time aboard a ship and hence to regulate the sailors' duty watches. The bell itself is usually made of brass or bronze and normally has the ship's name engraved or cast on it. Contents. [hide]. 1 Timing of duty periods; 2 Name of the ship; 3 Other uses; 4 Number of bells ... Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch.
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jeopardy/1966_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ... TALK | It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey" | Aye-Aye ... ON THE MOVE | In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's...
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The Sirens  Blog - Willets Road School  May 5, 2014 ... The crew tied him to the mast so he wouldn't go to the sirens. ..... was after Ulysses was retied, the sirens voices were "calling to him" again. He...
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Jeopary Questions page 1074 - TELEVISION - TriviaBistro.com  STORMS: It was once believed evil spirits that rode storms were driven away by ringing these  ODDS & ENDS: "Davy Jones' Locker" is sailor's name for this.
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Aug 1 - American Radio History  .go Hole re Perso session regola'. 1 hold a time th t A. Car o rs upt' d Dista' of sever. certi. buYie ..... Columbia Records urges you to combine your finest creative efforts and most .... )v,iond, at the same time, is designed so that the dealer will not be over - ..... It's more than likely that another English group will be making the.
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Trouble shooting your spring driven clock movement.  To repair a spring driven movement, the first thing to do is release the power on ... The Weight Driven Clocks pendulum cannot touch anything during its swing.
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Some Case Histories of Shipboard Lubricating Problems During ...  can relate some lubricating experience of the Navy ... Since this is a paper on lubrication, the cases ..... rubbing motion of the shaft, relative to the bear- ..... not been complicated by the ccmcentrations clue to ..... inhibiting properties, but because it reduced the ... Here again the shipboard operating crews ..... Laboratory No.
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Historian Explains The Origin Of "Taps" : NPR  May 30, 2011 ... The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. ... height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> ... But, first, the bugle call played at military funerals is ingrained in ... It's my honor to do over 300 military funerals a month for our Maryland veterans.
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Why did "noon" used to mean 3:00? | Dictionary.com Blog  Dec 14, 2011 ... The town bell rang at four intervals during the day to signal the time to all who could hear. ... Well, the word for the ninth hour, specifically the ninth hour of .... The confusion comes because people are not used to using '0 as the first value, ... (The Latin word for noon, meridies, changes to meridiem when...