In 2018, the BBC made freely available for non-commercial use around 16,000 of its sound effects recordings. A few hundred come from known locations around the UK, and most of those have been presented here in a sound map. All recordings © BBC.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Ship launch: 3,200 tons, sideways, before launch, Yorkshire crowd, close perspective. Rec. Cochrane's shipyard. Selby, July 1985.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Ship launch: 3,200 tons, sideways, bottle breaks, men hammer at props, cheers as boat begins to move, hits water at 1'43", 3 cheers.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Whitby lighthouse's foghorn sounding. Elliptical horn, c. 1950s, distant perspective.
BBC DESCRIPTION: Whitby lighthouse's foghorn sounding. Elliptical horn, c. 1950s, close perspective.