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    Bell recovered from wreck of UK battleship sunk in WWII

    LONDON (AP) — An American philanthropist and investor has recovered a bell from a British battleship that was sunk in the North Atlantic during World War II.

    A team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen retrieved the bell from the HMS Hood, once the largest warship in the world and the Royal Navy's symbolic flagship. The Hood was sunk by the German ship Bismarck in the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland in 1941. All but three of the Hood's 1,418-strong crew perished.

    A first attempt in 2012 to recover the bell from the wreck — lying at 2,800 meters (9,186 feet) deep — failed because of poor weather conditions and technical difficulties. Britain's Royal Navy and Allen's website said Monday a second try, using a remotely operated vehicle and working with shipwreck search company Blue Water Recoveries, succeeded on Friday.

    The Hood was the largest ship the Royal Navy ever lost in action.

    Admiral George Zambellas, Britain's First Sea Lord, called the Hood a "magnificent symbol of the power of the Royal Navy" and said her loss was a reminder of the high price Britain paid for freedom.

    "Her story, her sacrifice, continues to inspire the Royal Navy today," he said in a statement. "The recovery of the ship's bell will help ensure the 1,415 men lost, and the name Hood, will always be remembered by a grateful nation."

    The bell was said to be in good condition, though it would require a months-long conservation process. It is expected to be displayed in the National Museum of the Royal Navy in southern England's Portsmouth as a memorial to the Hood and its men.
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    “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

  • #2
    Glad it was saved now to go in a museum instead of someone's collection.
    RIP Charles "Bob" Spence. 1936-2014.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by 85 gt kid View Post
      Glad it was saved now to go in a museum instead of someone's collection.
      Especially after what's happening to Prince of Wales and Repulse
      “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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      • #4
        The curve .....

        Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
        Especially after what's happening to Prince of Wales and Repulse
        Okay, I am behind the learning curve.... can you expand?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by blidgepump View Post
          Okay, I am behind the learning curve.... can you expand?
          http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rap-metal.html

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          • #6
            HMAS Perth and the USS Houston are also being looted by scrap metal dealers in that area.

            http://www.news.com.au/national/scav...-1226783163131

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