History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
CS Orizaba by Bill Glover

CS ORIZABA

Built in 1883 by Harlan and Hillingsworth, Wilmington

Length 205 ft. Breadth 34 ft. Depth 16.1 ft. Gross tonnage 967

Named Willamette Valley on launch, renamed Kate Caroll and finally Orizaba. Chartered from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company by the US Army to lay the following cables. Equipped with a paying out machine sited on the forward well deck, two cable tanks, one forward 24 ft. dia by 8 ft. deep which held the St. Michael - Cape Nome cable and one aft 20 ft. dia by 6 ft. deep in which the Unalakik - St. Michael cable was coiled.

CABLE WORK

1900	Unalakik - St Michael - Safety Island, Cape Nome, Alaska

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Last revised: 5 October, 2015

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