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Topic: Photo of PT 493 with siren?? |
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PeterTareBuilder
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Posted on: Aug 13, 2008 - 7:45pm
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Hi Ray.
According to the blurb on the page where the siren is shown it is/was part of a temporary exhibit at an Alaskan museum. Here is the URl and then the blurb.
Cheers from PeterTareBuilder
Url: http://www.museums.state.ak.us/TemporaryExhibits/Collecting_Alaska/pages/wwIIcase2.htm
Blurb: World War II in Alaska
Air Raid Siren, hand-cranked, used by U.S. military on Kodiak Island and Kiska. 2003-4-2
Field Telephone, Alaska Communication System, used by Elmer Stensaker,
505 Signal Company, U.S. Army Signal Corps, ca 1950s.
Gift of Elmer and Rose Stensaker. 2003-47-1
Coke Bottle, from Adak Island Airbase, 1943. Gift of Don and Carol Lieurance. 96-45-1
Coke Ad ""Have a Coke=Welcome, Friends. . .or how to get along in Alaska"
Featuring U.S. troops playing baseball with Eskimo children in Alaska
Anonymous gift. 96-40-2
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Allan
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 Posted on: Aug 14, 2008 - 4:48pm
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Hey Guys:
Regarding the possibility of the piece of equipment being a siren, I would like to mention that I have noticed that many, if not all, of the boats numbered in the triple digits had the automotive style trumpet horn at the forward edge on the port side of the roof of the chart house replaced with an electric siren centered on the forward edge of the chart house roof.
The sirens can easily be seen in photos posted
1- by Gary Szot on 4/21/08 at P. 12, and
2- by Frank Andruss on 4/13/08 at P. 12.
I have noticed the siren on many later boats. I find it of interest that in one of these pictures you will note that the crew covered the siren with a piece of canvass or some other material- not to protect it from the weather, but to reduce the amount of sound or noise generated by the siren, I suspect.
I wonder if it was used as a signal to general quarters?
Allan
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