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 Aberdovey (song) collected many Welsh folk-songs, he also rewrote many English songs into the Welsh language. There are several versions of this song in print in English and in Welsh. A widely used version was from "The National Song Book" of 1905. This gives the English words as written by the song collector and editor A.P.Graves. It also states that ""The more appropriate title would probably be "The Bells of Abertawe" (Swansea, South Wales)"". Other later references to Abertawe being its origin suggest this may be as there were church bells at Abertawe but not Aberdovey when the song was written. The