History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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Leon Thevenin |
CS LEON THEVENIN Built in 1983 by Societe Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre Length 107 m Breadth 17.8 m Draught 6.24 m Gross tonnage 3200 Displacement 6820 tonnes.
Based at Brest on Atlantic maintenance duties. Helped recover wreckage including the cockpit voice recorder of the AIR INDIA Boeing 747 crash in 1985. Fitted with two main cable tanks with a capacity of 1070 cubic meters of cable, two 3 meter diameter bow sheaves and a stern chute. Cable machinery consists of two cable drums 3.4 m in diameter, two forward linear cable engines and one aft linear cable engine. CABLE WORK
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