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 Sørkabel by Bill Glover

CS SØRKABEL

Built in 1947 in Drammen

Length 72.0 ft. Breadth 20.5 ft. Gross tonnage 85.

Built for the Norwegian PTT for cable repairs. Fitted with a hydraulically driven paying out-picking up machine supplied by Johnson and Phillips. Power was supplied via a pump linked to the main propulsion motor. Also fitted with a single bow sheave and one cable tank. Based at Bergen.

CABLE WORK

19xx

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Last revised: 15 October, 2014

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