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My relative moved from near swansea to Chatham in kent, would this occupation have been one that allowed him to do this?

Copied from old occupations site:-

BOILERMAKERS:-


This is a description from a current trade site and is just as applicable to our ancestors, with alowances made for modern industry. The original occupation stemmed from making - boilers (!) and they were rivetted together, so the boilermakers were also rivetters.

Boilermakers are involved in building very large tanks, heavy pipe work and pressure vessels for nuclear power plants, refineries, and chemical manufacturers and in the ship construction industry.
As a Boilermaker, one assembles, erects and maintains boilers, tanks pressure vessels, heat exchangers, calandrias, pollution control systems, furnaces, condensers, water towers, penstocks and scroll casings using hoisting, rigging, welding equipment, tools and hardware as required by drawings, specifications and the applicable codes and standards.

Or from another old occupations site:-

Boilermaker - A craftsman who worked with metal in any industrial setting.


Kath. x

Both locations concerned with shipping.

Jim

My boiler maker (G Grandad) worked in shipping & started off as a rivetter. Known to have lived in Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales but always in places with docks.

I have 2 boiler makers, father & son. Son also did ship plating in Co Durham.
In those days I imagine very heavy, hard and dirty work and risky. One man fell to his death doing ship plating cracked his skull on the dock after falling from a ladder that wasnt secured properly.

Jen

Rachel.
In answer to your question, re moving from Swansea to Chatham....yes.

The Royal Naval Dockyard was in Chatham and the ships had boilers (ships were steam driven). Ships were built and were refitted and maintained there. Boilermakers were part of the overall team.

Ray

ps: I deleted the previous post as it was inadvertently duplicated!

Kathleen

Is it possible to write the web address for that old occupations website; im quite interested 2 know about that.

Sorry To Intrude Rachel :p

Regards xxxxxxx

Sophie I use this one

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/

& this one

http://www.amlwchhistory.co.uk/data/occupations.htm

Hi Sophie,

I mostly use the first one that Claire has given, and that's where I got the information about Boilermakers from.

Kath. x