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It had lain underwater after accidental magazine explosions sank the battleship HMS Vanguard at Scapa Flow in 1917.
The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917 during World War I, ... Eventually the USS Jacob Jones’ bell will be put on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Navy.
The bell was retrieved by a specialized salvage unit assigned to survey the wreck site of the USS Jacob Jones, a United States Navy destroyer that went down in the English Channel on Dec. 6, 1917 ...
The bell of the USS Jacob Jones, an American destroyer sunk during World War I. The shipwreck was discovered by a British dive team in 2022. (Rick Ayrton) ...
A bell that sunk in 1917 along with the USS Jacob Jones, a World War I Navy destroyer, has been returned to U.S. custody.
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 ...
The Jacob Bell had sixteen hundred tons (chests) of tea on board. Her passengers and crew were transferred to a Danish vessel and arrived at St. Thomas on the 19th of February.
The USS Illinois bell has been ringing in victories for generations of Illini fans, but it’s in need of some TLC. The ...
Divers Find Wreck of First U.S Destroyer 'USS Jacob Jones' That Was Hit by a Torpedo in 1917 During WWI World War artifacts are valuable to many authorities and civilians because of the time in ...
The bell-ringing, part of a Sunday memorial on the UA campus, was the emotional end to a reunion of USS Arizona survivors and family members of survivors.