Disney cruise horn

[Host Mick]

Since the modern ships use air, not steam, then I woudl say they are horns. ;)

 

Are you SURE that they are air??? Many modern ships are still built with steam systems. Slow-speed diesel ships use an uptake boiler to make steam for a turbo generator so that they can shut-down the diesel generators when underway.

The Disney Cruise Line ships use five generators to power two electric motors that drive the ship so they probably don't have a steam system aboard. The "horns":eek: are probably air. I've seen them go off and there was a little vapor coming out from the compressed air, not a whole cloud of steam as with a proper ship's whistle. I'm still stuck in the past when most ships had steam. I'll have to reconsider the cows analogy.:(

 

BTW, did anyone ever hear the ship's fancy hornwhistlesignaldevice on the first few voyages? It was AWFUL. It took a while for them to get the notes tuned. I was on Magic voyage 8 and we were on deck 10 during departure. When the fancy "when you wish upon a star" thingy went off a bunch of us looked at each other and said "What the heck was that?"

[kg66]

I sent you an e-mail for the file for the ship's horn. I went to the link, but it won't save. Any help? Thanks.

[S.S.Oceanlover]

I sent you an e-mail for the file for the ship's horn. I went to the link, but it won't save. Any help? Thanks.

 

when you get to the page where the link for the horn is don't "left click" and open the link. "Right click" it and pick "save target as" if you are using IE.

If using Firefox "right click" and pick "save link as".

 

Hope this helps

 

Bill

[Cruise4Life]

Oh, I understand. Didn't mean to sound condesending(sp).

 

Head Mouse.....Not taken that way....believe me.....I would love to try DCL....My friends are going on the DCL Med cruise...which is a longer cruise l...(good job DCL extending the itinerary) I will wait to hear their reviews....

 

Maybe someday....:p

 

Host Mick...I don't cruise for the shows/entertainment either...gambling is what I was referring to...:D

[Host Mick]

Head Mouse.....Not taken that way....believe me.....I would love to try DCL....My friends are going on the DCL Med cruise...which is a longer cruise l...(good job DCL extending the itinerary) I will wait to hear their reviews....

 

Maybe someday....:p

 

Host Mick...I don't cruise for the shows/entertainment either...gambling is what I was referring to...:D

 

Oh, THAT adult entertainment. Nope, no casino. There's bingo but it's just not the same. Perhaps a game of craps up on deck 10 or Liar's Dice in the Promenade Lounge is about as close as you're going to get. Then there is a casino in the Atlantis in Nassau if you need a quick fix.

[shiphorn]

BYW, bulls have horns, ships have whistles.

 

There is a lot of confusion surrounding this point. The reason you still hear people say "ship's whistle" is not because ships still have whistles, but rather because it's traditional nautical terminology for the ship's primary noisemaker, whether it's actually a whistle or not. The same is true for locomotives. Steam-powered ships and trains usually had steam whistles as their primary signalling device, but modern diesel vehicles do not.

 

None of what we call "cruise ships" have true whistles. Cruise ships all have either diaphragm air horns of the SuperTyfon design, or electric piston horns (a device where an electric motor reciprocates a piston at the end of a horn-shaped resonator). The Queen Mary II has horns of the older Tyfon design, which were originally designed for steam, and were often referred to as "whistles" for the above mentioned reasons. In much of Kockums and Leslie's own literature, the steam Tyfons are designated as horns, which they are (because they use a diaphragm and have a horn-shaped resonator).

 

The bottom line is this: you can call it "the whistle", but if you want to be the expert, you should know why you're calling a horn a whistle. And it's not wrong to call it the ship's horn(s), because they do have horns (resonators so-called for their geometrical resemblence to the animal protrusions of the same name).

[ricker]

This is a fun one when you're in port and a Disney ship comes in:

 

http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/Sounds/MAGIC.wav

 

Rick J

[Dandy8]

Hi..we where on the Carnival Elation July 18,04 and we docked next to the Disney Magic in Cozumel..we they docked there horn or what ever they call it played "When you wish upon a star"..i was wondering how often do they honk the horn??

 

Thanks

 

They blew the horn when we were leaving each port and during the sea day (they usually make an annoucement before doing it). In fact I was sitting by the hot tub and couldn't hear what they were saying over the loud speaker...suddenly the horn sounded and I almost fell off the side. If you are on deck it is very loud!