Mike, I'm sorry to be late getting back to you, but I
was traveling much of the last day or so. I appreciate
your interest, and have tried to respond as best I
can, with responses in caps. (Since getting your
email, I have seen Michael Land's comments that it
looks like a business sign. This might be the case,
the words I've asked about appears in the lower left
corner of this plaque, and I had assumed it referred
to the ship. My comments are in caps: (THANK YOU AGAIN
FOR YOUR INTEREST AND IDEAS!)

--- Mike Wignall <thamesmatch@...> wrote:

> --- In Thames_Barges@..., Dave Schwain
> <dschwain@y...>
> wrote:
> >
> Well ... I'm like dog with a bone on this!
>
> (a) what is the total number of letters involved in
> the name - both
> legible and illegible?
> THERE APPEAR TO BE 13 LETTERS OR SPACES, ALTHOUGH
THERE COULD BE ONE MORE OR LESS. THE FIRST THREE ARE
DEFINITELY "GRA" AND THE LAST FIVE ARE DEFINITELY
"PIEPS." I THINK THE FIRST FOUR ARE "GRAIN" FOLLOWED
BY A SPACE BREAK OR LETTER, AND ANOTHER SPACE FOR A
LETTER OR BREAK, FOLLOWED BY WHAT I THINK ARE SIX
LETTERS "PPIEPS."
> (b) do the letters form a single contiguous [smart
> word :-)] word? AS I NOTED ABOVE, I CAN'T
TELL..THERE MAY BE TWO WORDS
>
> (c) you've got 2 dashes in your name. Does that
> represent just two
> illegible lettes in that perticular position - or
> what? YES...HOPEFULLY I WAS CLEAR IN MY RESPONSE
ABOVE
>
> (d) do you think there's a "dash" in the middle of
> the word which
> might separate the barges name from a second word
> e.g. a port of
> registration? THIS SOUNDS LIKE A POSSIBLE ANSWER!
>
> Try looking at the name in different coloured light
> ideally blue and
> red and at different angles to help pick out colour!
> THAT WAS A GREAT IDEA, I TRIED AS YOU SUGGESTED, BUT
WASN'T ABLE TO GET ANYTHING NEW .
>
> We should be able to crack this - the identifiable
> sequence of
> letters are quite helpful in a way.
>
> My semi-guess would be based on this skeleton entry
> in a lsit I hold:
>
> ************
>
> VERHEYDEN, P., (????-????): ????, Dunkirk, France,
> ????-????; owner
> SB Gravelines I [ex Ena 1905)], 1905-1912; [NB
> should 1905 be 1906?]
> SB Gravelines II [ex Hilda (1906)]; 1907-1912;
>
>
> **********
>
> How about "Gravelines"? Would that fit? Then there's
> the "ppieps"
> bit. I wonder if Verheyeden registered her in
> Dieppe? Problem is I'm
> not aware that Gravelines [1 or 2] were ever owned
> by Daniels :-(
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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