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Survey operations in the Mediterranean for Mat 1 telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work.
The picture shows TV screen showing the sled full of weed on ocean bed.

CS MERCURY cable tank showing inner cone, also the crinoline is shown on the tank bottom.

C S RETRIVEVER (4000 tons) laid the shore end sections of the Aukland - Sydney and Sydney - Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific cable, which stretches from Vancouver to Sydney via Suva and Aukland.
Seen off Muriwai beach.

During the second week in May, CS Recorder (3,349 tons) laid shore-ends at Jesselton of the Jesselton - Singapore section of the South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable (SEACOM).
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end…

SEACOM 2 Shore and operation at Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong.
This picture shows the end of the trench showing the entry into the manhole. One cable already fitted with articulated piping. Ships crew left-right: Honorio Perez and Angel Chapelo.

C.S Retriver (4,000 tons) laid the shoe-end section of the Auckland/Sydney and Auckland/Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific Cable, which stretches from Vancouver in Canada to Sydney in Australia via Suva and Auckland in NZ.
This picture shows…

This photo shows a repeater bypassing the cable laying out gear prior to being laid from CS Mercury.

Underwater photograph of deep-sea divers adjusting tow line on sea low. The low, designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury undersea telephone cable below the ocean floor, was used by American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Long Lines…

A detailed diagram of the sea plow on 'Operation Sea Plow'.

This diagram shows a sectioned specimen of deep-sea, light-weight coaxial cable of the kind likely to be used by Cable & Wireless Ltd. and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation in the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Cable in 1961.

The same…

The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless Ltd, repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965. This photograph shows a repeater entering the…

The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965.

This photograph shows the final splice on…

During April 1965, C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500-ton gross) surveyed the route for the Tortola-Bermuda telephone cable which will provide the northern outlet for the 21-million W.I. dollar project in the Eastern Caribbean to improve inter-island and…

This photograph shows survey operations on board the C.S. Recorder in the Mediterranean for the Mat I telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work. On the foredeck, you can see the survey sled.

A Cable & Wireless repeater stack on board ship.

Mr R.G. Bell at the 110v motor generator change-over panel. Pictured behind him is 110v mgs, with 10v mgs nearest the camera. On his left is a 110v distribution board. On his right are the main supply switches and battery switchgear. On the extreme…