enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Cable layer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_layer

    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. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves [ 1 ] for guiding cable over bow or stern or both.

  3. CS Mackay-Bennett - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_Mackay-Bennett

    The Cable Ship Mackay-Bennett was a transatlantic cable-laying and cable-repair ship registered at Lloyd's of London as a Glasgow vessel but owned by the American Commercial Cable Company. She is notable for being the ship that recovered the majority of the bodies after the sinking of the Titanic .

  4. USNS Zeus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Zeus

    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. Transatlantic communications cable - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic...

    When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by Cyrus West Field, it operated for only three weeks; a subsequent attempt in 1866 was more successful. [citation needed] On July 13, 1866 the cable laying ship Great Eastern sailed out of Valentia Island, Ireland and on July 27 landed at Heart's Content in Newfoundland, completing the first lasting connection across the Atlantic.

  6. C.S. Sovereign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S._Sovereign

    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 ...

  7. Europeans investigating possible sabotage of undersea ...

    www.aol.com/europeans-hint-possible-russian...

    A file photo shows a fiber optic cable being pulled ashore by a cable-laying ship in the Baltic Sea, in Sassnitz, Germany, Nov. 29, 2023. / Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance/Getty

  8. CS Faraday (1923) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_Faraday_(1923)

    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 ...

  9. MS Lodbrog - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Lodbrog

    Lodbrog is a 10,243 GT cable-laying ship that was built as a freight ferry. She was built in 1983 as Siegelberg and completed in 1985 for Romanian owners as Tuzla. In 1996 she was renamed Bolero. The ship was renamed Lodbrog after conversion to a cable layer in 2001.