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Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 334 Send Message	Jackie	Report	21 Oct 2003 08:35
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 334 Send Message	can anyone tell me what a steamboat stoker was? cheers jackie.
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	21 Oct 2003 08:43
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Hi Jackie, I would guess that he would be the person who would put the coal into the whaterever it is to give the steamboat its energy. You've heard of stoke the fire! Regards Margaret
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	Unknown	Report	21 Oct 2003 08:44
Member Since: January 0001 Posts: 0 Send Message	STOKER A person who tends the fire of an engine boiler.
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 334 Send Message	Jackie	Report	21 Oct 2003 09:20
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 334 Send Message	thanks margaret , regards jackie .
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 12,218 Send Message	}((((> Jeanette The Haddock <)))){	Report	21 Oct 2003 09:36
	Jackie Definitely as Margaret says. My Grandad was a stoker on the submarines. Come to think of it an ex boyfriend was a stoker in the Navy too. Jeanette
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 1,680 Send Message	Janet	Report	21 Oct 2003 14:01
	According to Allan, if you are "steamboats" you have drunk too much alcohol, so presumably a "steamboat stoker" is someone in the process of getting very, very drunk. Jan