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  2. Cable layer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. USAT Burnside - Wikipedia

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    Her job in the Philippines was not merely to lay submarine cable, but to trench the cable ashore, build cable offices, and do whatever else was required on land and sea to make the links work in wilderness locations. The ship needed more manpower, so the bosun went ashore in Manila to hire whoever he could. These men stuck with the ship and ...

  4. USNS Zeus - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. Submarine communications cable - Wikipedia

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    The company later expanded into complete cable manufacture and cable laying, including the building of the first cable ship specifically designed to lay transatlantic cables. [25] [26] [27] Gutta-percha and rubber were not replaced as a cable insulation until polyethylene was introduced in the 1930s.

  6. CS Faraday (1923) - Wikipedia

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    Testing cable on Cable Ship Faraday laying trans-Tasman submarine cable. Faraday carried out a number of cable laying and surveying exercises both in home waters and the Pacific until 1939. [ 1 ] Among the operations was the 1935 laying of the Bass Strait telephone cable to connect Victoria with Tasmania with six telephone and about twelve ...

  7. CS Pacific - Wikipedia

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    CS Pacific was a cable ship registered in Copenhagen, Denmark, owned by the Great Northern Telegraph Company.The steel vessel was built in 1903 in the shipyards of Burmeister & Wain and delivered that year for the purpose of laying and repairing submarine cable in the Far East networks.

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