Knock, Knock.

A little soemthing for you fine goats to check out. Enjoy!

http://www.shiphorns.com/

i have to recount something and hope it is called a hijack...

I did 17 years in the navy as a FMF type and worked with shore duty or marines for sea duty... well I wanted to finish the navy with a time in the salt on a ship and well I went to CVN 70. nice ship, nice working conditions, pretty cool.

I manned the rails for the first time in my life and it was so cool, as a chief no less... I was a boot at sea and loving life, and than the ship sounded its very very very loud horn while I was on the flight deck... I bout crapped and ducked and well must have looked pretty stupid that day, and not to be the first or last but have to recount the distance between my feet and the flight deck must have been about 10 feet... i have yet to ever not jump when that thing goes off...

Schistosome you are not alone.

Try middle of the night on the signal bridge just after pouring a coffee. Foggy night in the sea lanes with the radar out and the bridge deciedes to sound the horn above your head.

Coffee everwhere!!!!!!!!!

Brown stains all over the place and in other places better left unsaid.

Most harrowing however was middle of the channel heading for a bridge on a tanker and the blasted air powered horn froze, February of 68 and it was single didget cold. Had to climb to the top of the pilot house with a pot of boiling water to unfreeze it while the Captain pulled the cord. Lost my hearing for two days when that thing went off.

HUH!!

I was hoping I was not alone on this one... need one for my car!!! durango GO

are uscg civilians allowed to visit or board any ship

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I manned the rails for the first time in my life and it was so cool, as a chief no less... I was a boot at sea and loving life, and than the ship sounded its very very very loud horn while I was on the flight deck... I bout crapped and ducked and well must have looked pretty stupid that day, and not to be the first or last but have to recount the distance between my feet and the flight deck must have been about 10 feet... i have yet to ever not jump when that thing goes off...

did you notice in my quote the commerical that was injected on the word flight! I didnot like that

I'm going to get all technically correct on y'all.

The proper name for what you folks are referring to is the "Ship's Whistle".

A "prolonged blast" (what made Schistosome jump) is sounded in US inland waters when a ship's status changes from "moored/anchored" to "underway". By instruction, it should last 4-6 seconds.

Last time FLETCHER was underway, we had to sound "five short" since a slew of sail boats decided to cut across the channel in front of the outbound Hornblower Dinner Cruise and us, inbound to 32nd Street after a "Family day" cruise. Hope we didn't deafen too many folks that were hanging out on the 04-Level above the Pilot house since they had absolutely no warning to plug their ears.

Ah, but the ships whistle is just a luxury you get to experience for hopefully brief occasions.

You haven't lived or enjoyed it to the fullest unless you had the luck??? to be stationed in a Lightship. An extinct species of vessel, but basically a remote location floating lighthouse.

If you recall from older movies the BEEEEEEE OHHHHHHH deep roaring sound effect. That was made from a horn called a diaphone. We had two in the NANTUCKET LIGHTSHIP, and when it was foggy it would be turned on, and sometimes go for days. A 5 second BEEEEEE OHHHHHHHH every 30 seconds.

So loud it could knock the fillings out of your teeth.

Now that's fun.

If you ever get up towards the BROTHERS LIGHTHOUSE in upper San Francisco Bay, I believe the organization that restored the light has the diaphone in operation.

INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL
AN ANNUAL U.S. COAST GUARD OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC DURING THE ICE SEASON TO ASCERTAIN THE LOCATIONS OF ICE BERGS AND TO WARN SHIPS; UNDERTAKEN UNDER A 1914 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN 14 MARITIME COUNTIES

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Originally posted by LISAJACKSON:
INTERNATIONAL ICE PATROL
AN ANNUAL U.S. COAST GUARD OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC DURING THE ICE SEASON TO ASCERTAIN THE LOCATIONS OF ICE BERGS AND TO WARN SHIPS; UNDERTAKEN UNDER A 1914 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN 14 MARITIME COUNTIES

HUH!

How did we go from ships horns to Ice Patrol. Did I miss something again?

Are you folks sailors or what. Have you never hear of the Rules of the Road. Find a copy or look in your long lost BMJ's and should tell ya all about it. Better a loud noise than a Bow in your side. Gary on a foggy day you should have heard the sound every two minutes. What should scare ya is to hear a Ship's whisle and it isn't yours in the fog. The doc I can excuse but for sea going sailors. Duh Westpac Willie

The fog horn that was on the Golden Gate Bridge was the loadest in the country, the loadest ships horn was or is on the USS Enterprise CVN-65. What ever you want to call it, the point it makes is the same. (Get the hell out of the way) I put 31 years at sea and I can't remember how many times I hard a ships Whisle go off, I hard it but then I did'nt, got use to it maybe. Wait,, the whisle on my tug was a scramer, folks could tell if it was a train or tug because they or the same whisle. Oh my 26 foot lighthouse has a fog horn. Yep I can hear the whisle ,horn, blast of a whisle. Time for a . "Boats".. Al..