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Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - BAJR - 10th January 2013
We need your help to solve a puzzling mystery! Can you help us identify this thingamajig?! Itâs an object that was found in a box in the RNLI Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer, Norfolk. It measures 13.5cm x 17.5cm x 13.5 cm.
A label stated that a diver salvaged it from the wreck of the SS Teddington, a steamer which was sunk off the Norfolk coast following an attack by German aircraft in September 1941, during the Second World War. But we donât know what it is!
Do you have any ideas? Weâd be very grateful indeedâ¦.
[additional note from Andy Hollinrake:
Not sure about SS Teddington being sunk, however. Best check the diver's story, if he got this from a wreck, might not have been Teddington.
Found this:
"German motor torpedo boats S.50, S.51, and S.52 of the 4th Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla attacked a Convoy off Cromer.
British steamer TEDDINGTON (4762grt) was badly damaged in 54-03N, 1-35E.
The steamer was taken in tow, but went ashore on the 18th two and three quarters miles east, southeast of Cromer Pier. The entire crew were rescued."
So here it is:
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Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - CARTOON REALITY - 10th January 2013
It's an armoured plated marine tea caddy with basal 'wings' to bolt it to the galley shelf so it doesn't fall over in turbulent seas. Lid is obviously missing.
Clear proof of how expensive tea was during the war.
Just a hunch.
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - Digger - 10th January 2013
Whats the hole diameter? looks like a foot to hold an upright post for a hand rail. Three screws to hold down to a wooden surface (deck?), though if you loosen two it would be removable.
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - Dinosaur - 10th January 2013
At a much smaller scale, the steppy conical effect is very like a load of old hose fittings we used to use, you jammed the rubber hose on as many steps as you could then did up the jubilee clip
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - CARTOON REALITY - 10th January 2013
Funny you should say hose Dino i think it is a clamp for one (or a pipe) but I don't think that the ribbing is correct for holding the hose/pipe over the top of it - I'd say the arrangement is more like this. . .
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The length of the clamp takes lateral pressure off the point where the hose/pipe joins to main supply
Again, just a hunch, (I'm going to look stupid when they put it up on facebook and it turns out to be a part of a suitcase.) Still prefer the tea caddy.
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - P Prentice - 10th January 2013
yep - thats waht i was just about to say
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - CARTOON REALITY - 10th January 2013
Quote:yep - thats waht i was just about to say
That its a clamp or that you prefer the tea caddy?
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - P Prentice - 10th January 2013
CARTOON REALITY Wrote:That its a clamp or that you prefer the tea caddy?only if compliant - i have standards
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - Dinosaur - 10th January 2013
Actually from that sketch surely its a twist-on attachment, who needs the screws? Just push it up and twist till the lugs engage?
Help Identifying an Artefact No. 2 - CARTOON REALITY - 10th January 2013
Twist on not possible with direction of gaps on lugs - look at the photo - never mind that poxy sketch.
I'm thinking it is bolted - with the sort of hinged bolt you might see on a porthole or a hatch that swings away once loosened. Not in sketch. That's why there's those gaps.