U.S.S. Utah Bell and Plaque

This is the actual bell of a ship that's still on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The USS Utah—the first Navy vessel named for the state—took torpedoes on the morning of December 7, 1941 and capsized within minutes; fifty-eight of her crew died, and she was never raised. Her one-ton bell was salvaged, and in the 1960s a Utah senator arranged to bring it home. It hangs now in the campus Naval Science building, restored, a two-thousand-pound object that once rang the watches on a sunken ship.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 1.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.4 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 2.0 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 2.1 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Leroy E. Cowles Building — steps away
• John A. Widtsoe Building — steps away
• John Rockey Park Statue — steps away
• Gardner Hall — steps away