A century-old maritime mystery came to a happy ending Friday when the owners of a sailing schooner got a gift they never expected to see - a long-lost ship's bell. The bell has been missing for 100 ...
An enormous bell once attached to a historic warship that was torpedoed during World War I has been recovered from the wreckage, about a year and a half after divers discovered the lost ship in waters ...
Divers retrieved a brass bell from the sunken USS Jacob Jones, a WW1-era American destroyer. The bell was recovered due to concerns about the plundering of military wreck sites. The bell will be sent ...
The brass bell — most of it, anyway — has survived the Battle of Hampton Roads, a Portsmouth church fire and the melting pot of a Baltimore foundry. Now it’s tucked away in a Civil War exhibit at the ...
"Iron versus Wood: Sinking of the Cumberland by the Merrimac. In Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862." Oil painting by Edward Moran. (National Archives) NORFOLK, Va. — The brass bell, most of it, anyway, has ...
The bell of the HMS Campbeltown is coming back. The 50-pound brass bell, given to the South Londonderry Township community in 1950 in thanks for the U.S.’ lend-lease help in World War II, had been ...