boatswain's call
bosun's whistle

He explains her duties and summons the children with a boatswain's call.

Historically the boatswain's call was used to pass commands to the crew when the voice could not be heard over the sounds of the sea.

He heard a whistle to his right: Jackson was imitating the reedy note of a boatswain's call.

The ship's captain, and more senior officers are "piped" aboard the ship using a Boatswain's call.

The sailmark is a boatswain's call.

A Boatswain also is responsible for doing routine pipes using what is called a Boatswain's Call.

The piping was done by the ship's boatswain and therefore the instrument is known as the boatswain's Pipe or boatswain's call.

Boatswain's call History and Timeline, Examples and More.

A boatswain's call, pipe or bosun's whistle is a pipe or a non-diaphragm type whistle used on naval ships by a boatswain.

During this time Beckett published 'The boatswain's call: how it is used, and some facts about it', which was later incorporated into the Official Seamanship Manual.

Boatswain's mates also stand watch on ship's bridges, passing information relating to routine and special activities to the crew with the distinctive boatswain's call or boatswain's pipe.

John Cale - electric viola, piano, bass guitar, electric guitar, glockenspiel, bells, mouth organ, bosun's pipe (see Boatswain's call)

In some modern navies, the so-called Boatswain's pipe or Boatswain's call which was used in the days of sail to communicate orders to crew members high aloft on the masts and throughout the ship, is still in use for ceremonial purpose as well as calling attention to announcements over amplified loudspeaker circuits on modern warships.

Sharpe hurriedly followed suit as the bosun's whistles made their strange twittering sound.

All her hatches were open, and the sound of saws screaming on metal bubbled through them like particularly shrill bosun's whistles.

Ship Starboard 30 departed from its ancient station; across a mile of sea the bosun's whistles could be heard from Starboard 31 as she put on sail to close the gap.

The regiments of the fore-starboard watch swarmed up the masts from Monday to Friday, swarmed out along the spars as bosun's whistles squealed out the drill-The squall struck.