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
End of Watch Call of the police procedural "Elementary". The practice of the Los Angeles Police Department was shown in "Reckoning," an episode of "Southland". On the soap opera "General Hospital", the character Jordan Ashford uses the radio to make the Last Call to Nathan West, an officer killed in the line of duty by his father, Cesar Faison. An End of Watch call also occurs in one of the final episodes of the dramatic comedy "The Mysteries of Laura", starring Debra Messing and Josh Lucas. End of Watch Call The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which,