Ship’s Bell Returned

Here’s a cool story about the classic sailing schooner Adventuress, and her bell which has been missing for a century. Thanks to Art Shotwell and www.anacortesnow.com for the story…

Adventuress’ Bronze Bell – AnacortesNow photo

The 101-year old schooner Adventuress, which is back in Anacortes Friday for sailings for local school kids and the Anacortes Schools Foundation, has regained a bit of its history with the return of the ship’s original bell.

The bell that sounded on Adventuress’ maiden voyage to the Arctic a century ago has been found in the care of an 87-year-old man who received it as a gift in 1936

Representatives of the Puget Sound area’s historic schooner Adventuress, along with experts from the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and the San Francisco Bar Pilots are travelling Friday to Belmont, Calif. to receive the ship’s bell that went missing a century ago.

The bronze bell, that reads Adventuress 1913, has been in the possession of Alfred R. “Nick” Lemos since he received it as a boy in 1936. He has kept the bell ever since, until this spring when Lemos asked his adult children to help him find out the fate of the ship named on his bell. (continued at Anacortes Now)

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