A wee quiz with no prize and at the moment no answers. On the SS Explorer sometimes things turn up and sometimes they disappear. The brass devices pictured recently appeared. I don’t know where from and having been volunteering on the ship for ten years and been over every inch of her I should have seen them before.
The question is, what are they?
The smaller one above is a bout six inches long and has a spring loaded latch which retains the brass ring.
The larger one above is around 12 inches long and again has a spring retained latch. At the top is a small spring loaded pin with a ring to grip it by. A third of the way down is a thumbscrew which doesn’t seem to retain anything. The large brass section below that swings from the bolt and is restricted from full rotation by the boss which retains the thumbscrew.
