The ½-ton nickel bell from the U.S. Lightship Barnegat is now retired to Barnegat Light, the town where its ship stood offshore as a floating lighthouse from 1927 to 1942 and then after World War II, from 1945 to 1967.
The monumental artifact was purchased for about $9,000 and was secured only after it was able to be lifted by crane off what remains of the lightship, now rusting in the mud at a Camden boatyard.
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