The ball hammer

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0:56:08 > 0:56:12I found a hammer in the old family home in Donaghadee and it was used

0:56:12 > 0:56:15by my great-grandfather James Morton.

0:56:15 > 0:56:17He was a plater at the time of the Titanic,

0:56:17 > 0:56:21fabricating and preparing the plates in the plater's shed.

0:56:21 > 0:56:24A real dirty, hard job with a lot of heavy work involved.

0:56:24 > 0:56:28The ball hammer would have been used for knocking rough edges

0:56:28 > 0:56:32that the hydraulic press didn't take care of.

0:56:32 > 0:56:3512 years after the Titanic, he was still working in the yard,

0:56:35 > 0:56:38still working in a plating squad, and whatever happened,

0:56:38 > 0:56:41there was an accident, some of the plates came off the bogey

0:56:41 > 0:56:44and James was crushed in underneath it.

0:56:44 > 0:56:49He was an ordinary worker but, to me, he is an extraordinary man.

0:56:49 > 0:56:50Whenever he was killed in 1924,

0:56:50 > 0:56:54they brought his body back here to the family burial plot.