Boatbuilding Tongs

Description

Tongs, or clamps, used in boatbuilding, at a boatbuilder's yard in Tweedmouth (Northumberland). The tongs were used to clamp the clinker strokes (or planks) of clinker-built boats together while they were being nailed. Originally held in green slide cabinet, reference A9.

Metadata

Identifier dl1pyzsp
IRN 413471
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/S356
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/dl1pyzsp
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Slides
Creator(s) Sanderson, Stewart
Date 1959
Size and Medium 1 glass slide.

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