BURYING CABLES
PROTECTION AGAINST ; TRAWLERS j HALIFAX, Dec. 13. I Alter six months of experiment in tfie burying of cables far below the seas surface, the cable ship Lord Kelvin came back to Halifax to-day from Great t Britain. | For the last half-year the snub-nosed craft has been based at Plymouth, England, while her crew tried out a new system of protecting submarine cables . against the trawlers that operate oil the coasts of England and Ireland. | To guard the cables from trawls dragged along the sea bottom, the layers tried burying them. A strange ‘‘plough’’ pulled along the bottom by the Lord Kelvin, turned up a furrow into which the cable was laid, and then the plough covered up the trench again as it went on. I Though Captain M. 11. Bloomer, ot ! tho Lord Kelvin, refused to comment
1 to-day on the success of the new system, reports from England describe it as successful. So safely are the wires j buried that tho cable ship herself has been able to unearth them only oice in 20 attempts.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 7
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