Ship Horns - The Steam Horn from a Leander Class Frigate, Royal Navy.

This horn is a mistery!!!

It's a jacketed steam horn (I took the Jacket off), with a 200mm diaphragm, similar to a Kockums or Leskie Tyfon. It comes from the Portsmouth area, in the UK.

It has no markings nor ID of any kind. But I have once been given a few pics of the scuttling of a New Zealand Navy frigate. On these pics, I could see a pair of horns identical to this one. They had been salvaged from the ship.

This frigate was HMNZS Wellington, F69, formerly HMS Bacchante, sold to the Kiwis by the British.
HMS Bacchante was from the Leander Class, a serie of 26 ships, said to be some of the finest vessels in the modern Royal Navy.

Many of these ships have been sold abroad, some sunk as targets, some scrapped in England or India.
I have no idea about which ship it comes from nor if it really comes from one of these frigates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leander_class_frigate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bacchante_%28F69%29

Any help would be welcome.

The show starts at 01.40.

Photos Credits: Wikipedia and Caron Mills.

Music: Land Of Hope And Glory, by Edward Elgar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar

Thanks for your attention.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ship horn
• steam horn
• ship whistle
• Tyfon
• Kockums
• Leslie
• Royal Navy
• Leander Class
• f69
• Bacchante
• Wellington

[OcramNameez]

I actually have the two horns of the frigate Bacchante/Wellington (F69) so the horn in question is not from her. They make a great sound together running off a 100bar compressor but I am told with steam they move up a few decibels...

[Bighornshunter]

@OcramNameez Hey, how's it down under?

Thanks for the input. I have watched the different vids of HMNZS Wellington drowning, impressive and moving. I have been given pictures of your horns on a trailer, blowing from ashore to salute her. Great shots.

100bar??? You mean 10bar, 150psi?? At 100bar, you'd break everything inside.

Is it a scuba compressor?

On steam, they'd sound a bit higher and certainly louder, whatever the pressure.

Mine comes from HMS Scilla.

[michaelfeeney]

Hope you find what you're looking for...

Looking for info myself...

i think you could be the man to help....

What is the "Whooop Whooooooop" sound those old ships make?

Is there a name for that?

Id like to find a vid of that

[Bighornshunter]

???? Whoop??

Are you talking about that?

Youtube >>> "Skipper Doug at Whistles..."

Steam siren, not very common.

PM me if you need.

BTW, I'm looking for info about Irish Lights' foghorns.

Cheers.

[Bighornshunter]

Try to google "Star Brass steam siren" and see if you can find your sound.

[UBIQUEROL]

@michaelfeeney

I have a video of the sound effect, check my channel.

[Panzergredi]

Around 4:30 that freaky awesome! Keep up your work!

[KillaChrisABN]

I spent 3 years on HMS Galatea , that horn sounds very familiar......Tommo, I started as a boiler front stoker, so made the steam!!

[b1lderjack]

I had the honour and privilege to serve on HMS Bacchante, brilliant ship, brilliant crew

[paladiumdj]

I had the honour & privilge of serving on HMNZS Wellington.May she rest in peace.

[saltydog45]

Yes,I can vouch that the horn from F69 (HMNZS Wellington ) seemed a friggin lot louder with steam passing through it...especially when your working on the bridge top ! I know it used to rattle the Boiler wharf windows when they were flashed during basin trials :)

[TowTruckJoe1]

LMAO I would love to have that trailer full of horns. Are you using compressed air? If so..you'd need a big compressor for those big bastards. Whats the deal??

[shoplift1]

If that is a leander class frigate horn, could it be from the last ever leander HMS Scylla that was at portsmouth until a few years ago when it got towed to plymouth and sunk as a diving wreck/reef? the last one before that was HMS Sirius but that went years ago in the mid 90's. there are a few leanders still serving in other navies HMS Diomede is now called INAS Shamsher. Id bet your horn is off the scylla, thats where id start looking, it was in portsmouth harbour rotting away for years