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Mooring Post, Eisenhower Pier, Bangor, Northern Ireland A passenger ship mooring onto a harbour in Limone sul Garda, Italy. A dockworker places a mooring line on a bollard.. A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel (such as a boat, ship, or amphibious aircraft) may be secured.
CS Hooper, the world's first purpose-built cable-laying ship, built by C. Mitchell & Co of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1873, renamed CS Silvertown in 1881. A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, for electric power transmission, military, or other purposes.
C.S. Sovereign is a class DP2 type cable ship used for subsea cable installation and repair works. [2] The ship was designed by BT Marine with Hart Fenton & Company as Naval Architects (now Houlder Ltd) and built by Van der Giessen de Noord in 1991. [2][3] C.S. Sovereign has four cable tanks. Two main tanks each have a capacity of 1,327 cubic ...
Memorial anchor in Kirjurinluoto, Pori, Finland. Massive anchor chain for large ships. The weight of the chain is vital for proper holding of the anchor. [1] An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
Nautical cable. A nautical cable is a band of tightly woven and clamped ropes, of a defined cable length, used during the age of sail for deep water anchoring, heavy lifting, ship to ship transfers and towing during blue sea sailing and other uses.
Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes [fr], operated by Orange Marine. A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
JDS Tsugaru (ARC-481) was a cable laying ship of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Development and design. The ship was designed by requesting the Ship Design Association, which consists of former Navy engineers, with reference to the Hatsushima class cable laying boat of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Its main task was to lay an ...
September 27 2022; 2 years ago (September 27 2022) Grace Hopper is a private transatlantic communications cable that connects the United States of America (New York) with the UK (Bude) and Spain (Bilbao). It was announced by Google in 2020 and scheduled to go live in 2022. [1] The US to UK (Bude) leg went live on 27 September 2022. [2][3]