Some More on the HMS Guerriere Bell-- Part 1

From the USS Constitution Museum.

Tradition has it that the HMS Guerriere's bell was removed from the ship on August 19, 1812, to replace the Constitution's bell which had been destroyed in the battle.

A story in the Boston Daily Advertiser in 1897 claimed the bell "was sold among a lot of condemned naval stores between 1812 and 1816. The purchaser was S.H. Smith, who took it to Providence [RI] and placed it in the belfry of the factory in Lincoln [the 'Butterfly' cotton mill in Saylesville, RI, built around 1815] where it hangs today."

Other sources say the bell was removed from the USS Constitution in 1835 during a complete refit, but there are no documents to confirm it.

Doing Some History Sleuthing. --Brock-Perry