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