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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: kazzza on Thursday 01 November 12 11:01 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone make out the occupation on the 5 line.. My thought is Chalker !!
Thanks in advance
Karen
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caulker
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Agree with Caulker - would fit with having a shipwright on the same page.
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some info here
http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/content/view/76/164/
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Caulker - He inserts the caulking (tarred hemp fibres) between the planks of a boat to make it water tight.
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Thanks very much everyone ... always glad for another opinion.
Karen
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It's caulker. His job was to make the joints in a ship airtight.
Modified - Oops was going to post when I got called away by our builders who, at the moment are making our house anything but airtight - they're just removing the kitchen window. ::)
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Funny Lizzie, thanks. ;D
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It's caulker. His job was to make the joints in a ship airtight.
I think I'd prefer my ship watertight ;)
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Oops - I meant watertight. As I said I got interrupted by the builders ::) ::)
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My father was a Caulker/Boilermaker, nothing to do with ship or wooden hulls though, railway workshops.
Skoosh.
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It's caulker. His job was to make the joints in a ship airtight.
I think I'd prefer my ship watertight
Just as a matter of interest -
if you're testing for something being airtight (inner tube for example) you put it into water and look for air bubbles
So does that mean that airtight is 'tighter' than watertight??
Linda
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There again if you are testing for something to be water tight you fill it with water put it into air and look for water droplets. ;D
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There's always one! :o ::)
So you don't know either?
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The scientific answer is that water molecules are much larger than those of the constituent gases of air, so that air could pass through a watertight seal but water could never pass through an air tight seal.
A typical example is having a bath, air can get out but water doesn't get in ;D ;D
Colin
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My father was a Caulker/Boilermaker, nothing to do with ship or wooden hulls though, railway workshops.
I think it says 'Iron' in brackets after 'Caulker' - so this chap was quite possibly working on ships' boilers.
And we should ignore that Colin, he's just talking rude ::) ;D
Carol
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Thank you every one for your suggestions & thoughts.. some put a smile on my face :)
Regards
Karen