![]() "Flash art" are pre-made tattoo design sheets from which Sailors would pick ready-made tattoos from tattoo shop display books or walls, a tradition still followed today.Īnchors and American flags were, and still are, popular designs for Sailors, especially after the USS Maine (ACR-1) sank in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898, killing three-quarters of its crew. Born in 1874, Wheeler served aboard the USS Chicago, which later became USS Chicago (CA-14). One example from the National American of the American Sailor’s artifact collection that demonstrates this love is the tattoo art of Coridon Laverne Wheeler, a United States Navy Sailor who drew this image around the turn of the twentieth century. Sailors’ love of tattoos stretches back hundreds of years, to when British Royal Navy officer Captain James Cook first explored the Polynesian islands in the eighteenth century. Though the bugle in the NMAS colelction dates from the 1940s, the same design was used by buglers at Great Lakes as early as 1911. Today, the bugle is still used and its sound is distinctly recognizable. An example of a "Routine and Emergency Call" would be Watertight Doors, which would be "sounded as a signal to secure the ship below the water line for the night during maneuvers or fog." An example of a "Routine" call would be Attention to Orders, an "Emergency call" would be Man Overboard or Torpedo Defense Quarters. The calls are broken up into three main categories: Routine, Emergency, and Routine and Emergency. According to the manual, there are over 100 different calls including two of the most recognizable, Evening Colors and Taps. The bugle is used as a warning call for the ship. Designed for a quick self-study, there are six chapters, The Bugler, Sounding the Bugle, Reading Music, Starting your Practice, Bugle Practice, and The Calls. ![]() The official " Manual for Buglers," originally dating from 1919, is one in a series of Navy Training Courses prepared by the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Navy bugle is made of brass and is in the Key of "G." A bugle has five key parts, which include the mouthpiece, the tube, the bell tube, the bell, and the tuning slide. ![]()
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