Wilkinson, Henry Daniel, 1857- · London : "The Electrician" Printing and Pub. Co. Limited ; New York : D. Van Nostrand Co. · leaf 259
all into the water. This done, the manilla is cut adrift, and immediately the small rope supports holding up the chain and rope to ship’s side are torn away by the strain, and the buoy, with the cable anchored below, floats free of the ship. It will be noticed by reference to Fig. 132 that the… … Fic. 133. through stoppers as the ship’s bows rise and fall in the sea-way and the time for testing and buoying is cut as short as possible, The above method of first sinking the cable when buoying sometimes gives trouble on account of the slack at the bottom getting into coils, When this happens…
Cables, Submarine
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