Ship's Bell
Boomer
Posted 2007-12-04 1:03 PM (#9871)


Mess cooking

Posts: 46

Location: Palm Harbor, Florida
Subject: Ship's Bell

Another question regarding a diesel boat's configuration when submerged.  Was the ship's bell or it's clapper stowed below when rigging for dive?  If not, would it become a source of noise?

Thanks again.  More details concerning the model I'm building.

whalen
Posted 2007-12-05 11:19 AM (#9908 - in reply to #9871)


Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 606

Location: Citrus County FL
Subject: RE: Ship's Bell

RANKOON?  WHAT THE HELL IS A RANKOON?

When I was on the Jallao, I looked, but never found, the ship's bell.  (I was a QM it was kinda important.)  Then I went to the museum up in Manitowoc, and there it was.  I guess if you keep it in a glass case in Wisconsin, you don't have to worry about it making noise while submerged.

TSpoon
Posted 2007-12-05 7:47 PM (#9932 - in reply to #9871)
Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 561

Subject: RE: Ship's Bell

Aboard the Tirante in the 1960s the cooks were responsible for the bell. It was mounted aft of the sail in port and the cook had to bring it below when setting the maneuvering watch. It was moounted to a short pipe that would slip into a hole on the sail. It was stored in one of the bench seats. I think the mess cooks had to polish it.

Today it resides with an old Tirante mate in Alabama.

T.spoon, DBF
louverhead
Posted 2007-12-06 7:36 AM (#9942 - in reply to #9871)
Mess cooking

Posts: 30

Location: Eddington, Pennsylvania
Subject: RE: Ship's Bell

The bell for the USS Cubera SS-347 is mounted on the forward deck of the USS Cod SS-224. I proudly served on both of these submarines.
Boomer
Posted 2007-12-06 2:48 PM (#9950 - in reply to #9871)


Mess cooking

Posts: 46

Location: Palm Harbor, Florida
Subject: RE: Ship's Bell

Thank you all for your inputs.  I think I'll run with TSPoon's comments regarding the cooks being responsible for bringing the bell below when the maneuvering watch was set.  Makes the most sense plus now I don't have to build a 1/192 bell!