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<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>There must be
someone more qualified than me to answer this one than me</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The use of bells was
for time calling.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=597210108-10112008>Ships run a
watch keeping system, to enable active manning thought 24
hours</SPAN>.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>all the changes are
geared to a number of strikes of the bell.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>The navy is
intensely traditional, even maintaining shore establishments as if they were
ships.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Submarines maintain
watch keeping, so would have a bell.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bells presumably
became obsolete when vessels became so large and noisy that the
bell could not be heard below deck in much of the vessel, so they are no
more or less logical on a submarine than any large surface
vessel.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=597210108-10112008><FONT face=Arial size=2>They were never as
far as I know used to signal land or other vessels. Flags guns lights and horns
are used for that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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