Gold Watch Lost to Depths of Lake Michigan Finally Returns Home After Sinking with Shipwreck 165 Years Ago

Gold watch lost to depths of Lake Michigan finally returns home after sinking with shipwreck 165 years ago

A pocket watch that was thought to be lost to the depths of Lake Michigan has finally returned home to the UK. British journalist and Liberal politician Herbert Ingram was on board the Lady Elgin, when it sank after colliding with a schooner in September 1860. After the sinking, Ingram’s body was recovered, and he was returned to England, and buried in his hometown of Boston in Lincolnshire. However, his pocket watch was long thought to have bee…

Historic gold watch lost in deadly Lake Michigan shipwreck 165 years ago finally returns home

The gold watch of Herbert Ingram, founder of the London Illustrated News, has returned to his hometown in England after it went down in a shipwreck 165 years ago.

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Pocket watch from deadly shipwreck returns home 165 years later: ‘Truly a once-in-a-lifetime discovery’ - Great Lakes Commission

Belonging to the late British journalist and politician, Herbert Ingram, a pocket watch was recovered from the bottom of Lake Michigan and returned to his hometown in the U.K.  Read the full story by People.