{"id":569,"date":"2007-07-08T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cruising.bc.ca\/blog\/general\/time-by-ships-bell-2"},"modified":"2007-07-08T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T03:33:00","slug":"time-by-ships-bell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruising.bc.ca\/blog\/ships-bell-time\/time-by-ships-bell-2","title":{"rendered":"Time by ship’s bell"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the days before clocks became a common item on board, a vessel would carry a chronometer. It was the duty of one person to strike the ship’s bell to indicate the time and the changes of the watch. 8 bells would signal the end of the watch<\/p>\n The bell strikes would be as follows: In the days before clocks became a common item on board, a vessel would carry a chronometer. It was the duty of one person to strike the ship’s bell to indicate the time and the changes of the watch. 8 bells would signal the end of the watch The bell strikes would be as follows:Read … Continue reading “Time by ship’s bell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[267,268],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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