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Originally Posted by bill_daniels
I wonder if the ship's horn worked at all when they lost power. Apparently, they had some kind of power to notify someone affiliated with the bridge operation. I'm assuming the ship's horn is air powered, so was there a compressed air tank that could have powered the horn to warn those on the bridge, or was the whole system the equivalent of drive by wire, so no power, no way to activate the horn?
I know we have quite a few ex Navy folks here. How does all this work?
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It's probably air powered but with a solenoid to release air on demand for signaling. no power = no solenoid.
Not likely that there's a pull lanyard like on a road tractor.