Plan of the fleet deployment during the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 </ br > by Alfred Thayer Mahan During the night came the sounds that the English fleet had been waiting to hear – the signal guns of the Spanish ships in the fog.

As they loomed up out of the fog, a signal lieutenant in Barfleur described them as " thumpers, looming like Beachy Head in a fog.

Montara Light was originally established in 1875 as a fog signal station after several ships ran ashore in the late 1860s.

The next year, the federal Lighthouse Board decided to put a light and fog signal at the point in Mukilteo.

It acquired this name around the 23 December 1899, a serious accident happened when a red signal was obscured by thick fog.

However, it was not until the 1870s that Camp Yerba Buena Island was completed, including a fog signal and octagonal lighthouse called Yerba Buena Light ( 1875 ) that remain today.

The world's first radio distress signal was transmitted by the East Goodwin lightvessel's radio operator on 17 March 1899, after the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwins, while on 30 April that year, the East Goodwin vessel transmitted a distress signal on its own behalf, when the SS R. F. Matthews rammed it in a dense fog.

In June 2010, Trinity House announced in the five yearly " Aids To Navigation Review " that the light range would be reduced to and the fog signal discontinued.

The fog signal was discontinued at this time.

The United States Coast Guard honored Henry for his work on lighthouses and fog signal acoustics by naming a cutter after him.

The current electric fog signal was installed in 1975, replacing older equipment.

However, due to the fog, the howitzer crews could not determine where their shots were landing, and they did not resume firing after the signal shots for fear of hitting their own forces.

Fog signal building: the original fog signal building was destroyed in a storm in 1935.

The GLSHS abandoned their 1996 plans to demolish the fog signal building and started restoration of the exterior of the building in 2002.

The GLSHS uses the fog signal building as a ground maintenance facility not open to the public.

The electric beeper horn is now lying flat on the ground next to the fog signal building.

The fog signal is still in service today.

Also new for the 2007 model year were LED turn signal repeaters on the side mirrors and fog lamps in the bumper.

On 6 November 1947, a steam train approaching from West Dulwich passed a signal at danger in heavy fog and crashed into an electric train crossing the station's south junction towards Tulse Hill.

: When the fog signal of another vessel is heard, apparently forward of the beam, a vessel should reduce speed to the minimum at which she can maintain her course, or if necessary stop, and navigate with extreme caution until there is no risk of collision.

It featured a new front bumper with LED turn signal strips in the air intakes ; the fog lamps were moved to the corners of the bumpers.

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

There was a fog, which increased the darkness of the night.

Somewhere in the fog, the nigger boy was still yelling murder.

And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

There was a slight lapse condition, a moderate fog, and 100 per cent relative humidity.

In the morning the fog was still thick so that to go to the village I crept along with my headlights full on.

`` Hurry up, we're late '', he said, noticing with a chill how gray the sky was this morning, the fog like a rope along the horizon, the choppy waves sending off sheets of blue and Kool-Aid green.

I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.

In Victorian London the bright red brick was chosen to make buildings visible in the heavy fog that caused transport problems.

His conclusions were influenced by his experiences in the Prussian Army, which was often in an intelligence fog due partly to the superior abilities of Napoleon's system but even more to the nature of war.

When the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was smaller, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from its white-hot fog of hydrogen plasma.

It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea, and that Amundsen was killed in the crash, or died shortly afterwards.

However, ROTT's engine was still the first to pioneer myriad features which would be found in many later games, such as panoramic skies, simulated dynamic lighting, fog, bullet holes, breakable glass walls, level-over-level environments ( made possible by " gravitational anomaly disks "; suspended objects that collectively form stairs, floors, etc.

Smog is a type of air pollution ; the word " smog " was coined in the early 20th century as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog.

The word was then intended to refer to what was sometimes known as pea soup fog, a familiar and serious problem in London from the 19th century to the mid 20th century.

The July 26, 1905 edition of the London newspaper Daily Graphic quoted Des Voeux, " He said it required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as ' smog.

That horn was discontinued in favour of a Tyfon horn consisting of 8 mini trumpets installed on the building that once housed the fog siren.

Foghorn on Ailsa Craig, where the fog signal was discontinued in 1966.

The fog signal was discontinued in 1987 although the horn is still in place and can be reached at the edge of the cliffs by a railed path from the lighthouse.

The fog signal was discontinued in 1961.

The fog signal was discontinued in the 1980s although the horn remains place as a decoration.

In 1984, the fog signal was discontinued and the fog horn building was demolished.