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A boatswain's call, pipe, or bosun's whistle is a pipe or a non-diaphragm type whistle used on naval ships by a boatswain. The pipe consists of a narrow tube (the gun) which directs air over a metal sphere (the buoy) with a hole in the top. The player opens and closes the hand over the hole to change the pitch.
A collective term for all of the sails on a vessel; the total area of all sails aboard her may be expressed as the area of her canvas. cap A fitting or band used to connect the head of one mast to the lower portion of the mast above. [35] Cape Horn fever A feigned illness from which a malingerer is pretending to suffer. Cape Horn roller. Also ...
Signals can be in the form of blasts on alarm bells, sounds on the ship's whistle or code names paged over the PA system. Alpha, alpha, alpha is the code for a medical emergency aboard Royal Caribbean and Norwegian ships. [1] Alpha Team, Alpha Team, Alpha Team is the code for a fire emergency aboard Carnival Cruise Line ships.
One of the last messages sent from the doomed Titan submersible during its June 2023 voyage to the Titanic wreckage was "all good here," according to a presentation from a U.S. Coast Guard hearing ...
He was the only VIP guest of two whistle-stopping presidential candidates who, years later, went on his own campaign train tour—and was elected president.Johnson was a guest on one of President ...
1 Main Circuit (1MC) is the term for the shipboard public address circuits on United States Navy and United States Coast Guard vessels.This provides a means of transmitting general information and orders to all internal ship spaces and topside areas, and is loud enough that all embarked personnel are (normally) able to hear it.
After an exchange of whistle blasts with Empress of Ireland, Storstad was slowed and Captain Andersen (who was asleep in his cabin at the time) was called to the bridge. When he arrived, Andersen saw a masthead light moving quickly across Storstad ' s course from port to starboard whereupon he ordered the engines full speed astern.
Following Carter's death Sunday, President Biden called for flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days at all federal facilities. When reached Friday, a spokesman for Blakeman told CBS News New ...