Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Shipwright's Working Rules and Price List - 1937 - 1959

Peculiar working patterns were a necessary feature of repair working undertaken at the gridiron, slipway or perhaps the Ely Tidal Harbour since from personal experience time and tide wait for no man.

Shipwrights and their mates were sometimes required to work at sea to undertake repairs, assist damaged vessels and perhaps attend sea trials following extensive repairs hence the need for rules covering their offshore working hours and conditions.