The Cable Ship Long Lines and Worldwide Telecommunications
AT&T. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 20 pages plus covers. Illustrations. Chronology. Printed in about 1976 (last date in the chronology). Scuff on front cover. Built for the Transoceanic Cable Ship Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. Fitted with 3 cable tanks, two of 55 foot diameter and one 42 foot dia,eter, all being 32 ft high, giving a storage capacity of 156,119 cubic feet or 2168 nm of 1¼ inch cable. Three smaller tanks each with a capacity of 3,000 cubic feet for storing repair cable were fitted between the main tanks. The cable laying equipment consisted of a linear cable engine in the stern and two paying out-picking up machines forward with three 10 foot diameter bow sheaves and gantry for laying rigid repeaters. In 1997 Tyco International acquired AT&T Submarine Systems, which included CS Long Lines and CS Charles L. Brown. A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding cable over bow or stern or both. Bow sheaves, some very large, were characteristic of all cable ships in the past, but newer ships are tending toward having stern sheaves only, as seen in the photo of CS Cable Innovator at the Port of Astoria on this page. The names of cable ships are often preceded by "C.S." as in CS Long Lines. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by cable layers from 1857–58. It briefly enabled telecommunication between Europe and North America before misuse resulted in failure of the line. In 1866 the SS Great Eastern successfully laid two transatlantic cables, securing future communication between the continents. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Submarine Cable, Telecommunications, Cable Ship, Underwater Cables, C. S. Long Lines, Transoceanic Cable Ship Company, Bell Laboratories, Repeaters, Balloons
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