The company used cable ships to lay its undersea cable across the Pacific Ocean from America's west coast.
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Also, existing cable ships were not large enough, nor were their loading and laying gear sufficiently powerful and robust.
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The cable ship " Colonia " was built for the project at a cost of 1 million pounds sterling.
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In June 1942 the Post Office cable ship " Iris " laid lengths of both Siemens'and Henleys'cable in the Clyde.
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The British cable ship "'SS " Lord Kelvin " "'was a cable-laying ship which served during the broken up in 1967.
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All had dual capability and several, including the " Niles ", went on to operate as small cable ships after Army service.
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It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship " Monarch ".
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In total, cable ships have carried out nearly 300 repairs, some of which at a depth of 5000 metres over the last ten years.
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USS " SP-319 " was transferred permanently to the Coast Guard and commissioned on 10 September 1919 for continued use as a cable ship.
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"Dock Express 20 " was powered by two dynamically positioned cable ship, she was refitted with three azimuth thrusters to serve as its main propulsion.
