Damaged fork

A four-pronged plated table fork, bent and twisted by heat. It was damaged in the eruption of Mount Pelée, Martinique on 8 May 1902. Associated with Captain Edward William Freeman, who navigated his ship SS 'Roddam' back to St Lucia, having survived exposure to the pyroclastic flow which swept over the harbour.

Object Details

ID: REL0310
Collection: Relics
Type: Fork
Display location: Not on display
Events: Eruption of Mount Pelee, 1902
Vessels: Roddam
Date made: circa 1902
People: Freeman, Edward William
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 40 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
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