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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

CS Dellwood
by Bill Glover

CS DELLWOOD

Built in 1919 by Hanlon SB & DD Co., Oakland

Length 320.7 ft Breadth 46 ft Depth 24.5 ft Gross tonnage 3478

Purchased by the US army in 1921 and equipped by Johnson and Phillips. Laid the 1924 Alaska cable which was manufactured by Siemens Bros., who supplied 1894 nm of cable. Returned to commercial trading in 1931 as a cannery ship for the Alaska Trading Company.

Requisitioned again in 1942 and fitted with new cable equipment which had been developed by the Sundfelt company from a sawmill winch. Used for both cable laying and harbour defence work, the latter on the US West Coast and in Alaska.

Sank at Attu, Alaska on 19th July 1943.

The University of Washington has an on line archive: CS Dellwood Photograph Collection, May 10-28, 1924, at which sixteen images of the ship on a cable laying expedition may be viewed.


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