The ship’s bell in these photos is one of the most remarkable artefacts ever to have come from a shipwreck off Cornwall, and tells a story of adventure and tragedy on the high seas rivalled by few other accounts of wrecks off these shores. The bell came to light in late 2020 when a manor house in west Cornwall was being renovated, and photos of the bell were sent to us at Cornwall Maritime Archaeology. We were astonished to see the words THE PRESIDENT and the date 1675/6 on the bell, meaning that it could only have come from the East Indiaman of that name wrecked with terrible loss of life off Loe Bar in 1684 – almost certainly a cannon wreck at that location that we first dived on in 2018 and have been investigating since then …