Historic gold watch lost in deadly Lake Michigan shipwreck 165 years ago finally returns home

Historic gold watch lost in deadly Lake Michigan shipwreck 165 years ago finally returns home

The watch, which belonged to 19th-century British journalist Herbert Ingram, is now displayed in his UK hometown

When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost in the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home. (WXMI)

The Lady Elgin at the wharf in Chicago on the day before it sank. (Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The watch was returned to Herbert Ingram's hometown of Boston, England, where he remains one of its most influential figures. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)