Ship's bell reputedly from HMS 'Implacable' (1800). The bell has a 21 1/4 inch mouth diameter. It is dated in rasied figures on the inscription band: '1807'. It is from the Whitechapel Foundry, London, and was cast by Thomas Mears I and his son Thomass II. Crown badkly damaged with canons and argent gone and a 4 x 7 inch hole by the shoulder. Bases of canons tapered and rectangular in section. Cast-in square section crown staple, now loose in crown. Moulding wires from crown 2, 2-2, 3-2. Soundbow 1 13/16 inches thick. A crack from lip to shoulder, welded up on the outside of the bell only without preheat, and now there are twohoriztonal cracks at right angles to the former crack. The 'Impacable' was formerly the French vessel 'Duguay Trouin' and was taken as a prize after the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.