HAS THE WRECK OF THE ALBATROSS EVER BEEN LOCATED?

The piece with the bell attached was still floating just after the roll, they were still pretty close by for someone to cut the bell from the frame. The cut I watched did not show it being saved, but they did have it when they were rescued and brought back to their families, along with one of the life rings with the name on it.

As for the actual wreck, there are several Albatross wrecks found on searches but I have not spotted this particular one.

I have found a couple of interesting links, but they do not reference the bell itself or if the wreck was ever found.

http://books.google.com/books?id=XHROKNJvz9cC&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq=roger+long+marine+architecture&source=web&ots=Z4lnsO53CK&sig=jMhOt866X0vW6Lnep93jBivHq0c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

and

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/nyregion/the-day-the-albatross-went-down.html?pagewanted=1

-- Edited to add this forum link:
http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?p=592129

Fascinating read by Roger Long who investigated the Albatross and also the Tall Ship Marques sinking.

Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night! ~ Margo Channing

If you wish to know more, there is a lenghty chapter in the book, TALL SHIPS DOWN about the Albatross. I hate to say this, but the ship was doomed to sink and it had nothing to do with Captain Sheldon--she had gone through previous owners and each owner had added more topsides, which was ok as long as she had heavy ballast--her heaviest ballast were here old WW1 engines. When Capt. Felix Luckner came aboard once he looked at the engines and said, "I've seen plenty of those before," (on German ships). The previous owner removed those heavy engines and replaced them with lighter ones and if I recall also increased the house, making her unstable and dangerous in just the right conditions--which she experienced from a side swell.

As for the bell coming to the surface, it was designed to float free if the boat foundered.

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