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:confused: I was talking to a few of the Australian lads the other day, and I was explaining to them that whenever we berthed alongside a US warrie, it was amusing to hear pipings for "ice cream vendor tender to your station",
and also the piping for the" quarter deck sweeper to man your broom ...sweep fore and aft etc...etc..and that they had an actual rating on their uniform to reflect what they did

which brings me to ask, has anyone heard of any more "flamboyant" pipes from our yankee mates..I reckon there would be a few more out there

Any USN rating can come fwd and give me some more detail please
and it does not matter what year or decade ...any info will help

Cheers from Down Under

DeadlyDaring

Thans david for the Link :) but I am after pipe messages that were said on the US Ships ....like "liberty call pipe - Now hear this now hear this, Liberty call sections one and three, to expire Monday morning 0700"

"General Quarter, all hands man your battle station, all hands man your battle station, this is a drill this is a drill" - then followed by some sort of short blasts of a horn

"Clear the bridge, clear the bridge, Dive Dive Dive" sounded with a claxonbell/horn sound

Can anyone on hear remember some of the pipe messages and lots more

Also does anyone know how to upload sound to a forum

Cheers
DeadlyDaring

You can upload most sound formats as an attachment here DD.

Here is a large group of authentic navy sounds from this location: http://policeinterceptor.com/navysounds.htm

Download: http://www.patriotfiles.com/dl/navy/navyaudiofiles.zip

Here is an interesting Boatswains Call Handbook.

David Ican't get the link to work with sound,starts to download then stops

Anyway ....Any previous Officer of the deck & Boatswains onboard here that as well as sounded the Boatswains Pipe but gave messages before during and afterwards the pipes
There must be hundreds of them and some must have been funny:D

Come on fellas ....put your thinking caps on:eek:

Cheers
DeadlyDaring:cool: