The Jacob Jones sank off the coast of Britain in December 1917 after being torpedoed by a German submarine. Naval History and Heritage Command 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 sent to the Washington Navy Yard and held at the command's underwater archeology lab. More than a century after a German U-boat torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones
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