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Main >> Previous Updates >> April 2005 >> April 09, 2005 >> Article ID 7753
 Ritchey-id helps to put a label on history | Type: Internet Article |
| | Ritchey-id helps to put a label on history | Apr 09, 2005 |
Summary:
It has also supplied tags to Bandit Lites, the world's second largest lighting hire company, whose client list includes Christina Aguilera, Alice Cooper and REM.
Phil Davison, ritchey-id's industrial sales manager, said: "The only limit to the number of uses for the tags is your imagination."
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THREE hundred years after it was wrecked by one of the greatest storms in history, the pride of Charles II's fleet has finally given up its secrets.
Greg Wright
Deputy Business Editor
Unsurprisingly, the fallen man o'war was in a fragile state, which is why archaeologists called in a Yorkshire firm better known for producing ear tags for livestock.
Ritchey-id's tough polyurethane tags helped ensure a rare 17th century gun retrieved from the wreck of the Stirling Castle could be put together in a form its makers would have recognised.
The tags were used to label the wooden carriage holding the ship's 49 hundredweight gun. It isn't the first nautical project undertaken by ritchey-id, which is based in Masham, North Yorkshire. The company's tags were used to record and reassemble a medieval ship uncovered in Wales last year.
The Mary Rose Trust, which excavated the gun carriage, has also ordered tags to identify pieces of an early Greek trading vessel which has been found off Gella, near Sicily in the Mediterranean.
The tags survived being submerged in the saline solution used to protect the gun carriage during conservation.
Now on display at Ramsgate Maritime Museum, the Stirling Castle gun was designed by Prince Rupert, a nephew of Charles I. One of only eight made, it is the only surviving example of its kind, as the 32-pound firepower often caused the guns to crack.
The gun carriage was recovered from Goodwin Sands off the Kent Coast, where the Stirling Castle foundered in the Great Storm of 1703. The gun carriage had to be rescued because shifting sands are causing the ship to disintegrate. Charles Barker, director of the Mary Rose Trust, said: "We need reliable labels, to prevent data loss during conservation. The tags remained legible, even when submerged in the corrosive chemical solutions we use to conserve wet timber."
Ritchey-id, which is part of listed company Ritchey, was founded 30 years ago to supply tags to the agricultural industry. It has since expanded into the medical sector – where tags can help stop the spread of hospital bugs by monitoring the use of surgical equipment – and the oil and petroleum industries.
It has also supplied tags to Bandit Lites, the world's second largest lighting hire company, whose client list includes Christina Aguilera, Alice Cooper and REM.
Phil Davison, ritchey-id's industrial sales manager, said: "The only limit to the number of uses for the tags is your imagination." |
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