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At midnight on New Year's Eve, 16 bells would be struck – eight bells for the old year and eight bells for the new. When a sailor has died he or she can be honoured with the sounding of eight bells; meaning "end of the watch". The term "eight bells" can also be used in an obituary, as a nautical euphemism for finished.
A ship's bell is used in concert with a watch system to indicate the time using bell strikes to mark the time and help sailors know when to change watches. Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of a ship's bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch.
The striking feature of clocks was originally more important than their clock faces; the earliest clocks struck the hours, but had no dials to enable the time to be read. [1] The development of mechanical clocks in 12th century Europe was motivated by the need to ring bells upon the canonical hours to call the community to prayer. The earliest ...
Eight Bells may refer to: Eights bells, a duty period on board ship, see ship's bell; Eight Bells, a 2009 album by SubArachnoid Space;
On Friday morning, eight of the cathedral’s bells tolled for the first time since April 2019, according to Alexandre Gougeon, who managed their installation.
Ring of 9 bells for Reading Town Hall, Berkshire, 1879–1881. Supplied by Gillett, Bland and Co. Chime of 8 bells for St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin, 1881. Supplied by Gillett, Bland and Co. Ring of 3 bells for Old City Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1900. By Gillett and Johnston; Ring of 10 bells for Wimborne Minster, Dorset, 1911. The ...
After thieves climbed up to the steeple and stole a set of loudspeakers last month, the sound of ringing bells is back just in time for Christmas at the Arlington Church of the Nazarene in East ...
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