Watchstanding regulate the sailors' duty watches and for other purposes (see main article). Unlike civil clock bells, the strikes of a ship's bell do not accord to the number of the hour. Instead, there are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. Bells would be struck every half-hour, and in a pattern of pairs for easier counting, with any odd bells at the end of the sequence. Watchstanding Watchstanding, or watchkeeping, in nautical terms concerns the division of qualified personnel to operate a ship continuously. On a typical seafaring vessel, be it naval or merchant, personnel keep watch
The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2001 and features segments from all of the "Tubular Bells" albums up to that year. It is a single CD which consists of pieces of various past versions of "Tubular Bells" albums; "Tubular Bells" (1973), "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" (1975), "Tubular Bells live" (1979), "Tubular Bells II" (1992), "Tubular Bells III" (1998) and "The Millennium Bell" (1999). The album has been re-edited so that the changes between most of the different parts of "Tubular Bells"