Fog bell information

A fog bell is a navigation mark used as an audible aid to navigation in seafaring, especially in fog and poor visibility. Floating navigation signs with...

mariners identify them. Audible fog signals have been used in one form or another for hundreds of years, initially simply fog bells or gongs struck manually...

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. Fog can be considered...

later seized as war booty by the French, then returned. The bell of Chersonesos or the fog bell of Chersonesos is sometimes considered as "one of Taganrog's...

illuminating apparatus and fog bell are in use'. In 1894 an explosive fog signal device was installed on the gallery of lighthouse; the fog bells were briefly retained...

in 1937, on which a bronze fog bell was installed, to warn ships in foggy weather. The clockwork drive mechanism for the bell was housed in the stone. It...

written after hearing the Angelus bells whilst passing a church. In "The Dry Salvages", T.S. Eliot analogizes a fog bell floating on the ocean to a "perpetual...

Pea soup fog (also known as a pea souper, black fog or killer fog) is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish or blackish fog caused by air pollution...

The fog of war (German: Nebel des Krieges) is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. The term seeks...

activated fog bell; these were switched on and off remotely from a control hut in the pier blockyard. In the event of a power cut, each bell was designed...

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice...

6114. PMC 1241576. PMID 12842775. Bell, Michelle L.; Davis, Devra Lee (June 2001). "Reassessment of the Lethal London Fog of 1952: Novel Indicators of Acute...

ISBN 978-0-8262-1396-9. Hurley, Donald J. (1994). Alcatraz Island: Maximum Security. Fog Bell Enterprises. ISBN 978-0-9620546-2-4. Mayo, Mike (2008). American Murder:...

buoy repair depot. The new structures obscured the fog bell, which was then replaced with a new fog bell on the east end of the coal storage shed. In 1927...

with a navigational warning light atop a steel-skeleton lighthouse and a fog bell that tolled every 12 seconds when needed. The Edward F. Dunne Crib was...

dwelling. A fourth-order Fresnel lens replaced the lamps in 1855 and a fog bell was added in the 1860s. The Five Mile Point Light was deactivated in 1877...

States. Its light and fog cannon warned mariners of Quoddy's dangerous cliffs, ledges, and Sail Rock. Among the first to use a fog bell and later a steam-powered...

Clouding of consciousness, also called brain fog or mental fog, occurs when a person is slightly less wakeful or aware than normal. They are less aware...

during a particularly foggy day, the fog bell mechanism failed, and Salter had to manually strike the fog bell four times per minute for nearly an hour...

Choice of Kipling's Verse. In the poem, a fog bell on a buoy above a shoal compares itself to a church bell and decides it does not want to "change with...

into the cliffs about 2½ km north of Baily in heavy fog, and as a result, it was decided that fog bells should be installed at the lighthouse. This work...

on the western wall. This tower, a short square wooden structure with a fog bell, survives to this day. The fort was strategically obsolete almost before...

Achilles Alferaki are the most famous Greeks of Taganrog. The bell of Chersonesos or "the fog bell of Chersonesos" is considered by many as "one of Taganrog's...

(150-kilogram) fog bell; however this was washed away during a storm in January 1860. (It was replaced with a larger bell, but not until 1864; the bell was sounded...

of the tower. The lights had a range of 17 and 15 miles respectively. A fog bell was also provided,. which sounded once every five seconds. Initially, the...

clockworks. The strokes of the fog signals were timed deliberately to afford each signal a unique sound characteristic. The bell signal was gradually replaced...