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.
A massive brass bell that went down with a torpedoed U.S. Navy destroyer during World War I more than a century ago has been returned to the United States, officials said. The 80-pound bell from the USS Jacob Jones was turned over to U.S. Navy Adm. James Kilby by a British Royal Navy officer in a ceremony earlier this month, the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command announced. In a social media post, the agency shared an image of Kilby receiving from Royal Navy Vice Adm.
The bell, once fixed to the warship itself, went down with the ship and became lost to time until a group of expert divers discovered the wreck in August 2022. They found it around 400 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, some 60 miles south of Cornwall in southern England, officials said at the time. Although the U.S. Navy typically observes a hands-off policy when it comes to older shipwrecks discovered in contemporary times, the NHHC partnered with the U.K.
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