<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bells on ships are maintained as 'Trophies, and along with other silver / gold items engraved with the ships name passed via the RN Trophy store on to the next ship of the same when newly commissioned.<div><br></div><div>There are some very historic items floating about when you consider names such as ARK Royal have been used for nearly as long as the RN has existed.</div><div><br></div><div>Another traditional use for ships bells are inverted as fonts for Christenings of babies born to ships crews families, the names of babies christened on board in the ships bell are engraved on the bell. </div><div>I was serving on board HMS Decoy ( Daring Class destroyer) in 1969 and lucky enough to have him christened in the Captains cabin with his Mum, and both set of Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles for quite a unique experience.<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 10 Nov 2008, at 08:21, Bickerton, Roderic (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <div><span class="597210108-10112008"><font face="Arial" size="2">There must be someone more qualified than me to answer this one than me</font></span></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><br></span></font></div> <div><span class="597210108-10112008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="597210108-10112008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span class="597210108-10112008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>ARY</div></div></div></body></html>