Ship's bell from the liner "S.M.S. Kronprinz " of the Imperial Navy

After the end of the World War I, the entire imperial fleet was sunk off the Scottish coast, including the SMS "Kronprinz", one of the most modern warships of its time. Shortly before the end of the war, in June 1918, the ship had been renamed "Kronprinz Wilhelm", probably the bell came off at that time. It survived in the Reichsmarinesammlung in the Berlin Museum of Oceanography. In 1964 it was inventoried as a stock of the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte (Museum for German History, MfDG). As an object in the legal succession of the empire, it is today part of the DHM - as well as almost a hundred other objects of this origin.