Mohawk (3/4)
Trinkets from the Mohawk
The Mohawk was carrying some 1300 tons of general cargo when she sank, and even today still produces the occasional porthole and many other artifacts. If you bring some serious digging tools ( and I don't mean a scooter ) you can dig down into the lower holds of the ship, buried well below the sand, where entire crates of stores and cargo lie undisturbed, waiting to be recovered. Or, if you bring some serious luck, you can find something on the surface, like this gold pocket watch, which came up in 2002.
These dishes were part of cargo, bound for Cuba or Mexico, and are quite ordinary and unremarkable. If they had actually belonged to the ship, they would most likely bear the Line's name and emblem - Clyde, Clyde-Mallory, or Ward ( the Mohawk changed hands several times. ) Apart from a few stains, they are perfectly usable, after 70 years buried in the shipwreck!
Glass perfume stoppers, shot glasses, and bar dish The perfume bottles were equally ornate, but all smashed. It must have been cheap perfume anyway, since good perfume doesn't come in big bottles! The glass dippers on the bottom of each stopper were also broken off.
The color of the plastic was incidental, since all bore traces of chrome plating which fell off soon after drying.
The brass box still contains spare blades, of the old double-edged type. The razor is Bakelite and brass: "Wardonia New Edge" - patent number 296,597, applied for 1927 by Thomas Ward and Sons of Sheffield England. It took me several frustrating weeks to find a head after finding a handle.
