Century-Old Bell From the First US Destroyer That Sank In WWI Recovered

Century-Old Bell From the First US Destroyer That Sank In WWI Recovered

A huge bell once attached to a historic war vessel that was torpedoed during WWI has been recovered from the wreckage, nearly one year and a half after the divers stumbled upon the lost vessel in the waters off England’s southwestern coast.

The bell had been retrieved by an expert salvage unit assigned to survey the wreckage site of the Jacob Jones. This U.S. Navy destroyer had gone down in the English Channel on 6 December 1917 after getting struck by a German-based submarine’s torpedo. It was...

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