Ship's Bell

Ship's Bell

By 2K Yachting Kraus & Kraus GbR

  • Category: Travel
  • Release Date: 2011-02-02
  • Current Version: 3.0
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 24.92 MB
  • Developer: 2K Yachting Kraus & Kraus GbR
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.5 or later.
Score: 1
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Description

Ship's Bell is primarily an acoustic clock that sounds half-hourly or hourly time signals. Without taking the phone out of your pocket you can easily keep track of time. The principle of this bell was founded in traditional seafaring. Seafarers used the bell to keep track of their four-hourly duty watches. The first half hour is signaled by a single bell strike. Another bell strike is added every half hour, ending with eight bell strikes. To hear the bell strikes better, they are grouped into double chimes. Eight bell strikes signaled a watch change – at midnight, 4 am, 8 am, 12 pm, 4 pm and 8 pm. With just eight different signals, being repeated in six cycles during the day, you will know what time it is every half and full hour. • Ship's bell according to the seafaring tradition • Two different kinds of chimes: classic bell or a modern synthesized sound • Option to strike only once each hour • Two different chimes for hourly signals: a single beep or a triple signal counting down to the full hour • Displays the current time on a maritime 24-hour clock face • Shows Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) • Switch to quickly enable or disable the acoustic signals A new addition in version 3.0 is the Tide Clock. An additional clock hand and a tide ring can now be activated on the two dials of the glass clock (12-hour or 24-hour dial). This makes it possible to estimate the time until the next high or low tide in the style of a mechanical tide clock. The tide clock hand makes one revolution within 12 hours and 25 minutes independently of the hour clock hand and thus shows the average time between two high or low tides. The indices on the tide ring show the hours before and after a coming or past high or low tide. Dear customers, If there are any issues with this app, please send an email to our support team. We will get back to you as soon as possible!

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Reviews

  • Does not work

    1
    By mvraven
    Time passes and it does not chime. It displays a cool 24 hour clock but does not chime. Please refund my money
  • Mr. Sanchez

    1
    By Panchotools
    3.99 Dls. for What...
  • Very nice marine clock app

    5
    By Johnnyp3301
    Love this 24hour marine clock app it's been down for awhile but happy😊to see it made a nice return an back in operation going to enjoy it again 👍👍👍
  • Keeps crashing

    1
    By sandpebbles
    App has stopped working since the last IOS update. Crashes every time I try to launch it. Get a 404 error message when trying to reach support.
  • Doesn't Work!

    1
    By Gealic Shadow
    don't know about you guys thumbs upping this app, but a ship's bell app that doesn't do the ONE simple task of making a ships bell… sad. One Star
  • A Great App!

    4
    By Jimmyauthor
    Does exactly what it is supposed to do. The chimes have a nice tone are sound very much like my Chelsea Ships Bell clock. A pleasant way to note the passage of time. The only things causing me not to give it five stars are the lack of a volume control and no access to GMT. How about a IPad version?
  • A fine app with great chimes

    5
    By GeezerGourmet
    A fine app, which does exactly what it is suppposed to do. I have a Chelsea Ship's Clock and find this app a highly effective means to adjust it each week. The chimes are quite similar. Simple - elegant . . .
  • Ship

    3
    By Dmwierz
    As a former US Navy officer, I enjoy the sounds of ship's bells, and have owned a brass replica of the type of clock I had onboard my last ship for years. This app is good, however I would suggest the following improvements. First of all, as pretty much everybody has stated, give us the ability to control the volume independent of the iPhone's ringer volume. In addition, give us the capability to program "quiet hours" so the app would automatically turn off the bells. My other suggestions are more annoying than anything else. The two sounds available for the ship's bells are too few. The "Classic Sound" is nothing like any ship's bell I have ever heard. It sounds much larger than even the 2 foot tall ship's bell I heard for years. I would also like to add the sound of the small ship's bell which all sailors are accustomed too - this is more of a chime than a bell or "clang". I have no use for the "Modern" bell, and don't know why it's even included. Also, it would be better if the 24 hour clock were able to orient itself to the iPhone's horizontal position. I often have my iPhone on my desk in the landscape mode, but when displaying this clock, it can only be used vertically. The app instructions also state that it's possible to have the clock display GMT but I can see no way to accomplish this. I would have thought this would be within the "Settings" but I could not locate it. I look forward to subsequent updates and improvements.
  • Great app

    4
    By lycanthropejeff
    This app, after using the iOS 5 work around, seems to work ok; sometimes it still fails to sound. I'm hoping the next update will fix this. I've installed all of the other ship's bell apps and this is by far my favorite. I love that it vibrates when the phone is in silent mode. It would be the perfect ship's bell app with the edition of 2 things. 1) an option to silence based on a schedule within the app, as noted by other reviewers. 2) an option to control the volume of the bell/chime independently of the phone ringer volume. This way the app would be heard only by the phone's user and therefore a bit less obtrusive. To the developers, keep up the good work. The suggestions above would make this a 5-star app without a doubt.
  • Clean and functional

    5
    By F. Skiddy
    Very nice program. Works flawlessly. The modern chime sound is just right for reminding me of passing time. An option to program the chimes to silence at night instead of needing to switch them on and off would be nice would be helpful.

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