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No ship fog horns?

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  • 01-01-2017 1:11am
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    John_Rambo
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    What's the story?


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    The flying mouse
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    You know I was only thinking about that earlier, wtf.


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    whiskeyman
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    Odd. One of the better traditions we have living near Dublin port.
    Probably a health and safety crackdown?


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    Atlantic Dawn
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    You probably need a permit now to touch your horn so to speak.


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    tricky D
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    Vogons


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    GBX
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    I blame the church. Stole them for a profit.

    No idea where they are but the OP didn't allude to anything tbh


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    Stellaluna
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    Radar and new fangled navigation aides killed the foghorns. There was a good episode of Coast on the Beeb about them a few years ago.


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    Ben D Bus
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    Stellaluna wrote: »
    Radar and new fangled navigation aides killed the foghorns.

    Pretty much sail themselves these days, they do.


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    John_Rambo
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    Ha! I meant at midnight on New Years! I live close to the sea and normally hear them sounding in. Didn't hear any this year.


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    Stellaluna
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    Right! Oops.


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    odyssey06
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    Have definitely heard them in Clontarf in the last 6 months ... didn't realise there was a NYE tradition of them.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    HeidiHeidi
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    This is a real throwback to my childhood - when we got old enough to be let stay up till midnight, we all used to pile out onto the front steps of the house (quite a bit away from the coast!) to hear the foghorns in Dublin Bay blasting away.

    Hadn't thought about it in literally years and years, but this year two different people mentioned them on New Year's Eve - and as I was in town at the time I listened out - but no sound.

    I wonder is it completely a thing of the past?


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    John_Rambo
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    I live close to the sea and I spend a most of my spare time in the bay or on the beaches. I hear them sounding all the time in fog, and sometimes five short blasts, usually means someones sailing in the middle of the shipping lane in traffic!

    There's a huge tradition all over the world of boats sounding off at midnight on new years eve (the youngest crew member sounds the horn) but I didn't hear any this year. They were blasting away last new years eve... I mean a full year ago.


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