PACIFIC CABLE.
FANNING ISLAND-VANCOUVER DUPLICATION. THE BIGGEST CABLE SHIP. (From Our Own Correspondent.! LONDON, July 22. With the greatly-increased speed of submarine cables, development proceede apace. The largest cable-laying ship ever built is at present in the Thames. She is the Dominia, and lias been specially built to duplicate the cable between Vancouver and Fanning Island. This is part of the scheme of the Pacific Cable Board to increase submarine telegraphic facilities between Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Since the war submarine telegraphy has made a remarkable step forward. " Millions have been spent in laying new cables and in improving the old ones. Perhaps the' greatest improvement is the outcome of the invention of the loaded cable. As a result of winding "memetal" wire round the core, the speed will go up on this route from 130 letters a minute to 600 letters a minute. The cabte to be laid has an approximate length of 3500 nautical miles, with a total weight of 8500 tons.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 5
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165PACIFIC CABLE. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 5
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