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 Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling base at Friedrichshafen, was abandoned after early snow in the Alps. This song was also used for the opening and end credits to "A Perfect Hero", a 1991 TV miniseries set in World War II England. The first two lines are also used in "Bells of Hell" a song from Kevin Quain's "Tequila Vampire Matinee" with "you" being replaced with "thee." Though usually associated with World War I, and apparently parodying the earlier song "She Only Answered 'Ting-a-ling-a-ling'" the song apparently also has links with the Salvation Army, as referenced in "The Mixer and Server, Volume 20" of 1911: "In