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

CS Stephan
by Bill Glover

CS STEPHAN

Built 1901 by Stettiner Vulkan

Length 391.8 ft. Breadth 48.3 ft. Depth 29.8 ft. Gross tonnage 4630

Twin screw. Triple expansion engines of 2,400 ihp, speed 14 knots.

Built for Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke and launched on 29 December1902, and commissioned on 1 March 1903. Fitted with four tanks with a coiling capacity of 98,000 cubic feet. Fitted with a double duplex machine forward, a paying out machine aft, triple bow sheaves, single stern sheave, twin dynamometers forward and a single one aft, all manufactured by Achgelis of Bremerhaven.

Handed over to the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company as war reparations at the end of WWI. Sold for scrap in 1926.

CABLE WORK

WHEN OWNED BY NORDDEUTSCHE SEEKABELWERKE

WHEN OWNED BY THE TELEGRAPH CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE COMPANY

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