# World's Largest Bell to Be Raised from a Burmese River **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074 "2012-08-01T17:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/1 "2012-08-01T17:12:59Z")
Story [here](http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/10538). The 520-year-old Dhammazedi Bell. At least, they think it’s the world’s largest. A Singaporean firm will soon make the latest in a series of attempts to dredge it up from a river, where it fell off a raft 400 years ago. If it really is 290 tons of copper, gold, silver and tin alloy as believed, then it will outweigh the 128-ton Moscow Bell, now considered the heaviest. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/2 "2012-08-01T19:39:17Z")
What? You mean the World’s Largst Bell wasn’t The Mother of Voices from the 1964 movie **The Long Ships** \*? [http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=A0PDoS8XhRlQvAcAOBuJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dlong%2Bships%26fr%3Dyfp-t-701%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D3&w=580&h=890&imgurl=www.moviegoods.com%2FAssets%2Fproduct\_images%2F1020%2F254372.1020.A.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviegoods.com%2Fmovie\_poster%2Fthe\_long\_ships\_1964.htm&size=160.2+KB&name=The+Long+Ships+movie+posters+at+MovieGoods.com&p=long+ships&oid=997dff0c62a576d17038f9f6ee8fbfff&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-701&tt=The%2BLong%2BShips%2Bmovie%2Bposters%2Bat%2BMovieGoods.com&b=0&ni=112&no=3&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11u4v5s1s&sigb=138q324bl&sigi=11vhqu36c&.crumb=.qCPHgio8Wq](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoS8XhRlQvAcAOBuJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dlong%2Bships%26fr%3Dyfp-t-701%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D3&w=580&h=890&imgurl=www.moviegoods.com%2FAssets%2Fproduct_images%2F1020%2F254372.1020.A.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviegoods.com%2Fmovie_poster%2Fthe_long_ships_1964.htm&size=160.2+KB&name=The+Long+Ships+movie+posters+at+MovieGoods.com&p=long+ships&oid=997dff0c62a576d17038f9f6ee8fbfff&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-701&tt=The%2BLong%2BShips%2Bmovie%2Bposters%2Bat%2BMovieGoods.com&b=0&ni=112&no=3&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=11u4v5s1s&sigb=138q324bl&sigi=11vhqu36c&.crumb=.qCPHgio8Wq) > **[The Long Ships (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships_(film))** > > The Long Ships is a 1964 Anglo–Yugoslav adventure film shot in Technirama directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn and Rosanna Schiaffino. > The film was very loosely based on the two volume Swedish novel The Long Ships (1941 and 1945) by Frans G. Bengtsson, retaining little more than the title (of the English translation) and the Moorish settings of Orm's first voyage. Although the protagonist is named Rolfe, the film was released in Sweden with the ... [http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=A0PDoX3NhRlQ61cANZWJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F\_adv\_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dlong%2Bships%26fr%3Dyfp-t-701%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D16&w=499&h=502&imgurl=i43.tinypic.com%2Fi6xeyv.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsolovagos.com%2Fforo%2Fsoundtrack%2F10549-long-ships-dusan-radic-1963-a.html&size=41.9+KB&name=The+Long+Ships+(Dusan+Radic)+(1963)+-+Foro+SoloVagos.com&p=long+ships&oid=63a114c3c85876d8da97e5f469f2832a&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-701&tt=The%2BLong%2BShips%2B%2528Dusan%2BRadic%2529%2B%25281963%2529%2B-%2BForo%2BSoloVagos.com&b=0&ni=112&no=16&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=12dfp9d1j&sigb=13903ris5&sigi=10qhq1t85&.crumb=.qCPHgio8Wq](http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoX3NhRlQ61cANZWJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26va%3Dlong%2Bships%26fr%3Dyfp-t-701%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D16&w=499&h=502&imgurl=i43.tinypic.com%2Fi6xeyv.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsolovagos.com%2Fforo%2Fsoundtrack%2F10549-long-ships-dusan-radic-1963-a.html&size=41.9+KB&name=The+Long+Ships+%28Dusan+Radic%29+%281963%29+-+Foro+SoloVagos.com&p=long+ships&oid=63a114c3c85876d8da97e5f469f2832a&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-701&tt=The%2BLong%2BShips%2B%2528Dusan%2BRadic%2529%2B%25281963%2529%2B-%2BForo%2BSoloVagos.com&b=0&ni=112&no=16&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=12dfp9d1j&sigb=13903ris5&sigi=10qhq1t85&.crumb=.qCPHgio8Wq) \*and, of course, Frans Bengtsson’s book. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/3 "2012-08-02T01:49:40Z")
No, probably not. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/4 "2012-08-02T02:13:07Z")
Maybe it’s a Diving Bell. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/5 "2012-08-02T10:35:29Z")
I wonder who it tolls for. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/6 "2012-08-02T11:02:46Z")
Ask not. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/7 "2012-08-02T11:25:34Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Ask not. Too late. He already Donne it. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/8 "2012-08-02T12:56:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > What? You mean the World’s Largst Bell wasn’t The Mother of Voices from the 1964 movie **The Long Ships** \*? Too bad it wasn’t. I had my hopes up that they might also find the Steel Mare.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-largest-bell-to-be-raised-from-a-burmese-river/630074/9 "2012-08-02T13:05:25Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > Too bad it wasn’t. I had my hopes up that they might also find the Steel Mare.:eek: You can take the first ride.