No problem, mate - all your efforts are highly appreciated. Just a bugaboo of mine as to reality - a dream as it were.
Sometime during the transition from sail to steam the lookouts (at least in the USN) starting using the clock system - as in "Ship bearing 8 o'clock" as everyone was familiar with clocks. During my time on a sailboat in the Bay area - 80's and 90's - I started getting kids that only knew digital readouts on clocks - no idea of a clockface! So I started teaching the true old system - worked a charm.
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