[aMorePerfectUnion]

Note inscription on bell...

[yesthatjallen]

I believe someone is mistaken or trolling.

It doesn't appear that bell is from JFKs' boat (or if it was in the past, that photo shows it's now on a different boat).

Perhaps further research is needed.

Bell: Eye of the Wing

Bell info

[stylin19a]

I got whacked on that bell as I was reminded to do research.

see here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3644414/posts?page=1059#1059

[Swordmaker]

The photos you're displaying are from two different presidential yachts. The "Honey Fitz" was a refitted, fancied up WWI mine sweeper, which had a standard inside bridge, and no tall masts for sailing, it has railings with wooden caps-rails. It was FDR's "Sequoia" . . . It is pictured in the six of your photos. Here is the bridge of the "Honey Fitz":

The other Kennedy yacht is the "Manitou," which was a racing sail boat yacht without an enclosed bridge, and is the one you see with stanchion and rope/metal railings, stays for the mast, with an external ship's wheel and binnacle, the one with Kennedy at the wheel. This is the wheel of the "Manitou":

It is the Manitou which has the decking curvature and the kind of wood work that matches the photo with the bell. The "Honey Fitz" has essentially flat decking, as it has metal decking under the added wood.

The Manitou, under sail, now for sale for $1,300,000