It was at Stephens shipyard that Billy Connolly served his apprenticeship as a boilermaker. He worked as a tinsmith, a coppersmith, and a boilermaker. He started an apprenticeship as a boilermaker with BHP at age 15. Purdue's official mascot is a locomotive, the Boilermaker Special. Instead, he worked as a boilermaker at Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyard in Linthouse. The Purdue Boilermaker wrestling team started in the 1913-1914 season. Spiksley was born in Gainsborough, the son of a boilermaker. Rowdy was a ten-foot-tall inflatable mascot who represented a young "future Boilermaker". Photographs from the 1960s show it installed on the back of Boilermaker Special III. This meant that the Boilermaker Special II was visually identical to the Boilermaker Special I. He worked for a while as a boilermaker before going into boxing. The high school's mascot is the "Boilermaker". The Boilermaker softball team began play in 1994. The current coach of the Boilermaker men's basketball team is Matt Painter. It was later installed on the front of Boilermaker Special IV in 1979.