The ball hammer A History of the Titanic in 30 Pieces
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I found a hammer in the old family home in Donaghadee and it was used | 0:56:08 | 0:56:12 | |
by my great-grandfather James Morton. | 0:56:12 | 0:56:15 | |
He was a plater at the time of the Titanic, | 0:56:15 | 0:56:17 | |
fabricating and preparing the plates in the plater's shed. | 0:56:17 | 0:56:21 | |
A real dirty, hard job with a lot of heavy work involved. | 0:56:21 | 0:56:24 | |
The ball hammer would have been used for knocking rough edges | 0:56:24 | 0:56:28 | |
that the hydraulic press didn't take care of. | 0:56:28 | 0:56:32 | |
12 years after the Titanic, he was still working in the yard, | 0:56:32 | 0:56:35 | |
still working in a plating squad, and whatever happened, | 0:56:35 | 0:56:38 | |
there was an accident, some of the plates came off the bogey | 0:56:38 | 0:56:41 | |
and James was crushed in underneath it. | 0:56:41 | 0:56:44 | |
He was an ordinary worker but, to me, he is an extraordinary man. | 0:56:44 | 0:56:49 | |
Whenever he was killed in 1924, | 0:56:49 | 0:56:50 | |
they brought his body back here to the family burial plot. | 0:56:50 | 0:56:54 |