Margaret Stone, curator at Brightlingsea Museum, welcomes the bell home [Matt Knight/BBC] A ship's bell lost to the sea for more than 130 years has returned to its Essex port home. The Masonic sank off the North Yorkshire coast during a fierce storm in 1893, and the entire crew and the ship's high-copper alloy bell were lost. But it is now back in Brightlingsea, where the ship was built, after workers constructing the Dogger Bank Wind Farm found it in the North Sea.