Once the salvors heaved the bell of the _Lutine_ clear of the sea. It was brought to London and hung in the main hall at Lloyd’s in the Royal Exchange. Whenever there is any important announcement to make to the underwriters about a ship being wrecked or an overdue boat reaching port, the bell of the _Lutine_ is sounded to call the attention of all concerned. Another time the salvors managed to bring up the rudder of the _Lutine_, and this was made into a chair and placed in the committee room at Lloyd’s. For another quarter of a century the sand and sea were left in undisputed possession of the wreck, then a new expedition set out to wrest the treasure from the encompassing sands. Right valiantly the salvors fought for that fortune, but luck was against them. Now and again they managed to bring up some of the coins that were lost in the _Lutine_, but the amount of treasure they recovered totalled considerably less than £1000 in all. So they discontinued further attempts and returned to England. Since then more than one expedition has gone out to try to win the remaining treasure from the wreck of the _Lutine_. In the year 1908 the natives of Brightlingsea were astonished by the sight of a weird object that was anchored off the mouth of the river Colne. So strange a thing they had never seen before, and they puzzled their brains for an explanation of it. The curious object which caused so much amazement was a wonderful device for recovering the treasure of the _Lutine_. It was a great steel tube with a little iron ladder running down the inside of it. At one end were gigantic hooks for hooking it to the side of a salvage vessel, and at the other end was a steel chamber with a series of watertight compartments and air locks. This marvellous contrivance, which took years to construct, was designed to be sunk in an upright position down to the wreck of the _Lutine_. It was equipped with water ballast tanks to sink it into place, and the steel chamber was furnished with cutting edges, so that the weight would enable it gradually to cut down through the sand until it reached the wreck. Divers were to descend the iron ladder in the inside of the tube until they reached the submerged steel chamber. Then they were to enter the air locks where the water was kept back by compressed air, and walk out into the wreck. The divers would then communicate by telephone with the engineers in the steel chamber and direct the powerful pumps that were to suck away the sand until the treasure was reached. Once the treasure was found, the divers were merely to remove it to the steel chamber, whence it could be transferred to the salvage steamer above at their leisure. Excellent as the invention seemed, it did not recover the treasure of the _Lutine_.