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...

identify them. Audible fog signals have been used in one form or another for hundreds of years, initially simply seashell horns, 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...

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...

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...

related to Marshside, Merseyside. North Meols Civic Society: Marshside Fog Bell RSPB Marshside - Jewel of the Ribble A visit to the RSPB Marshside reserve...

the French captured a Russian fog bell in Sevastopol and returned it to Paris as a war trophy. The French called it the Bell of Sevastopol and hung in the...

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...

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...

London Fog is an American manufacturer of coats and other apparel. The company was founded in 1922–1923 as the Londontown Manufacturing Company, Inc....

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:...

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...

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...

itself. A fog-bell was installed in 1865, replaced in 1882 by a larger, two-ton bell, 5-foot (1.5 m) in diameter (reputedly the heaviest bell in Cornwall)...

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...

daylight (daymarks), others have some combination of lights, reflectors, fog bells, foghorns, whistles and radar reflectors to make them usable at night...

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...

the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Blessed Pavel. The bell of Chersonesos or "the fog bell of Chersonesos" is considered by many as "one of Taganrog's...

fire in 1962 and not repaired, though the tower and a separate shed for a fog bell were undamaged. Fayette's family inherited the property, and in 2001 they...

Light. The pyramidal bell structure was built in 1914, two years after a large steamship, the Ransom B. Fuller, ran aground in the fog on this section of...

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...

Portland, Oregon area. It once contained the Pacific Northwest's oldest fog bell. It is Oregon's smallest lighthouse, and the only lighthouse, or one of...

An explosive fog signal was introduced at the same time, using Brock fog rockets to sound a signal twice every ten minutes. The bell was retained for...

problems with storms and poor-quality cement. The lighthouse featured a fog bell that sounded twice every twelve seconds, and a lantern fitted with a fifth-order...

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...