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Neptune-class cable ships (3 P) Pages in category "Cable ships of the United States Navy" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
USNS Zeus (T-ARC-7) is the first cable ship specifically built for the United States Navy. [1] Though planned to be the first of two ships of her class, the second ship was not built, leaving Zeus as the only ship of her class. She is capable of laying 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of cable at depths of up to 9,000 feet (2,700 m).
There are two main types of cable ships: cable repair ships and cable-laying ships. Cable repair ships, like the Japanese Tsugaru Maru, tend to be smaller and more maneuverable; they are capable of laying cable, but their primary job is fixing or repairing broken sections of cable. A cable-laying ship, like Long Lines, is designed to lay new ...
Military Sealift Command ships as of January 2022 [1]. This is a list of Military Sealift Command ships.The fleet includes about 130 ships in eight programs: Fleet Oiler (PM1), Special Mission (PM2), Strategic Sealift (PM3), Tow, Salvage, Tender, and Hospital Ship (PM4), Sealift (PM5), Combat Logistics Force (PM6), Expeditionary Mobile Base, Amphibious Command Ship, and Cable Layer (PM7) and ...
Further, charter of commercial cable ships was done when needed, but expensive and those ships were not always available when required. The AT&T CS Long Lines was used on occasion to lay trunk cable at a daily cost of $30,000 vice Neptune's $19,200. Scheduled Project Caesar work required a minimum of three Navy cable ships. [14]
Cable laying ships include service vessels designed or operated to lay underwater cable. ... Cable ships of the United States Navy (2 C, 8 P) U.
USS Nashawena (AG-142/YAG-35) was a United States Navy cable layer constructed during World War II for the Army as the wooden-hulled self-propelled barge BSP 2008.The barge was completed converted to cable work for U.S. Army Signal Corps as the cable ship Col. William.
This is a list of auxiliaries of the United States Navy. It covers the various types of ships that support the frontline combat vessels of the United States Navy. Auxiliary ships which function as hospital ships and as oilers are to be found in their own articles: List of United States Navy hospital ships and List of United States Navy oilers.