90-year-old wedding ring found on seabed reunited with family
A wedding ring that belonged to a British sailor who drowned in World War I has been found on the seabed and reunited with the family of the man who lost it.
Peter Brady thought he had picked up a small piece of metal from HMS Opal during a dive in Orkney last year.
But he discovered when he surfaced that it was a wedding ring bearing the inscription: "To Stanley from Flo, March 1916."
Mr Brady, 51, from Liverpool, found the ring by chance while running his fingers around the seabed.
"All of a sudden this thing came out, which I thought was an olive from a copper pipe," he said. "I put it in my glove and it was when I got to the surface I looked inside it and there was a hallmark in there."
He and his diving partner, Bob Hamilton, 61, checked the ship's casualty list on the internet and discovered that a 25-year-old Stanley Cubiss worked in the engine room.
He was one of 188 sailors who died when HMS Opal and HMS Narborough were lost on rocks during a snowstorm on January 12, 1918.
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Peter Brady thought he had picked up a small piece of metal from HMS Opal during a dive in Orkney last year.
But he discovered when he surfaced that it was a wedding ring bearing the inscription: "To Stanley from Flo, March 1916."
Mr Brady, 51, from Liverpool, found the ring by chance while running his fingers around the seabed.
"All of a sudden this thing came out, which I thought was an olive from a copper pipe," he said. "I put it in my glove and it was when I got to the surface I looked inside it and there was a hallmark in there."
He and his diving partner, Bob Hamilton, 61, checked the ship's casualty list on the internet and discovered that a 25-year-old Stanley Cubiss worked in the engine room.
He was one of 188 sailors who died when HMS Opal and HMS Narborough were lost on rocks during a snowstorm on January 12, 1918.