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 Portunus by Bill Glover

CS PORTUNUS

Built in 1944 by Federal SB and DD co., Newark, New Jersey

Length 221.1 ft Breadth 34.5 ft Depth 10.5 ft Gross tonnage 743

Built as landing craft LSM 275. Converted for cable repair work in 1952. Sold to the Portuguese in 1959 who converted the ship for use as a diving tender and renamed it Medusa.

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Last revised: 11 September, 2011

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