horn

noun, foghorn

“During the war, they kept the light going in the wintertime due to the fact that they were training pilots over here at Norman Rogers. They kept the light going but never the horn.”

“He helped Dad with the painting and everything. The grass cutting. But he also made sure that the horn blew when the weather got bad, the light was lit. Like, it was the same duties, basically, as Dad did.”

“Each fog station and light station on the Great Lakes had a different time. Like, I’ll give you an example. Nine Mile up here, when the old schooners used to come in, she had a three second light flash every thirty seconds. The horn blew a three second blast every thirty seconds. So these old timers, when they come in, they didn’t have to, for an example, see the light but they could time the horn.”

“Main Duck’s was different, False Duck’s was different. Now Pigeon never had a horn. And that’s why the old timers, they’d come in. It was on the chart, eh? And they’d hear the horn, see the flash of the lights, and they’d say, ‘Well, that’s Nine Mile’.”