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Ship's bell
Ship's bell. Inscription: 'HMS INDOMITABLE 1941'. The bell has an 18 7/8 inch mouth diameter, and is incised: 'H.M.S. INDOMITABLE 1941' on the waist and painted red. Wide moulding wires arranged from crown 2, 2-2, 3-2. The argent has six angular canons with tapered bases. The argent has a rectangular hole. It has a large cat-in crown staple. Lipt to shoulder at tangent 14 inches. Shoulder circumference 30 3/4 inches. Soundbow 1 inch thick. It is likely that this bell was a shipyard casting, as no bellfounder in 1941 would have used a cast-in staple and maded a bell so thin.
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Object Details
| ID: | EQA0467 |
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| Collection: | Ship equipment; Communications and signalling |
| Type: | Ship's bell |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Indomitable (1940) |
| Date made: | 1941 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 520 mm x 450 mm x 450 mm x 66 kg |
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