Ship Horn in Dun Laoghaire

cormie · 06-12-2008 11:34pm #1

There's been a ship horn going off for about 3 seconds, every 30 seconds or so for the past ages. What's that about

Ron DMC · 06-12-2008 11:57pm

Fog horn maybe?

Can't hear anything in Blackrock but I do have the telly on.

ian_m · 07-12-2008 8:47am

That would be the fog horn on the east pier.

cormie · 07-12-2008 9:21am

Thanks for the replies. So what's the purpose of it? Just to warn of fog? Why would it go off so often?

afatbollix · 07-12-2008 9:46am

to warn ships of the rocks as they cant see the light from the lighthouses.....

same reason there is a lighthouse at night...

id say you can figure out the rest for the reason for the fog horn now....

cormie · 07-12-2008 9:48am

I wasn't awake when I wrote the above

Steve · 07-12-2008 11:58am

It's more to benefit smaller craft. Commercial shipping can see quite well in fog using their radar.

ian_m · 07-12-2008 12:25pm

SteveC wrote: »

It's more to benefit smaller craft. Commercial shipping can see quite well in fog using their radar.

...not forgetting GPS

Run_to_da_hills · 08-01-2009 8:21pm

East Pier light house fog signal, I use to service it back in the 80ies. They used to test it every friday afternoon.

Tabnabs · 12-01-2009 9:14pm

They must have replaced you with a more reliable person, cause they don't test it anymore and only use it in anger now

Ship Horn in Dun Laoghaire

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