HMS Hood's bell recovered from seabed by Microsoft co-founder.
An American billionaire philanthropist has recovered the missing bell from a British battlecruiser that was sunk with nearly all hands, completing the final wish of one of the ship’s few survivors.
The bell from HMS Hood was recovered from a depth of more than 9,000 feet and will now go on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy
Ted Briggs was one of only three survivors from a crew of 1,418 on board HMS Hood when it was sunk by the Bismark in the North Atlantic more than 74 years ago.
Before he died he had often hoped the mighty ship’s bell could be salvaged from the seabed as a fitting memorial to those killed in the Royal Navy’s worst loss of life from a single ship during the Second World War.
His wish was finally fulfilled last week, seven years after his death, when the bell was recovered by research a team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
The bell was brought up from the shattered wreck lying in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland at a depth of more than 9,000 feet. The bell will now spend a year undergoing restoration before being placed in the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.
Thank you Paul.......................
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"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.