Sea Plow being lifted aboard the John Cabot

COMM 8.006.tif

Title

Sea Plow being lifted aboard the John Cabot

Subject

Sea Plow
Ship
Anno MWork

Description

A sea plow designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury the underwater telephone cable below the ocean floor is lifted from the sea by a crane aboard the John Cabot, a Canadian cable repair ship and icebreaker. The plow was used by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Long Lines department to bury the shore-end sections of two transatlantic cables off the coast of New Jersey, USA.

Publisher

Morrab Library

Date

1968

Rights

Cable & Wireless

Format

Print

Identifier

COMM 8.006

Coverage

New Jersey

Original Format

photo

Period Costume

N

Individual Names

John Cabot O Hawa

Geolocation