I am sorry for suggesting this "Mission Impossible"! This gentleman is only known in the family as "Sailor Brown" He appears to be a Tintype which has sufferred very badly over the years. I would like to find out a bit more about him but I think the first thing to do is to try to clean him up a little. I am not very computer minded and scanning him has proved to be an ordeal in itself but if you can suggest anything that would make your task easer I will try to oblige. He is so badly damaged I will be most grateful for any improvement however slight. Oh and if you also happen to recognise the uniform etc...