Hey Navy, What's This?

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hawk-aggie
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Do any of you current and/or former Sailors know what this is? We've been trying to correctly identify it for sometime without success. We believe it came off of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima (LPH-2). When hung up, the clapper is free to move and hit the outer shell. Makes a cool sound.

OldArmyCT
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Why do you think it came off the Iwo?
BigJim49 AustinNowDallas
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Was in Marshalls in 46 -dont know what that is.
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hawk-aggie
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OldArmyCT said:

Why do you think it came off the Iwo?
Because the museum for which I volunteer once had the island structure off the Iwo, and this is one of the artifacts that was with it. The plan was to use the island structure as a multi-story museum. However, aluminum prices with through the roof, and the superstructure was cut up and sold for scrap.

AgLA06
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That would have been interesting to see sitting in a pasture in College Station.
CT'97
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Not Navy, but it looks like a homemade bell. Not sure what they would have used it for, maybe something for well deck operations?
NavalAg05
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Hawk,

That looks like a Ship's Gong. Ships have Whistles, Bells, and Gongs. The Gongs are in the after portions of the vessel, used in low visibility at anchor.
Buck Turgidson
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hawk-aggie said:

OldArmyCT said:

Why do you think it came off the Iwo?
Because the museum for which I volunteer once had the island structure off the Iwo, and this is one of the artifacts that was with it. The plan was to use the island structure as a multi-story museum. However, aluminum prices with through the roof, and the superstructure was cut up and sold for scrap.


Dude! Wherever you anchored that aircraft carrier silted up pretty badly.
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