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CS Long Lines Ship Launch AT&T NY Schlieker Werft Hamburg Steins - $125 (Hyattsville, MD)
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s marked 0,5 L. 5 1/2 inches tall. "Built for the Transoceanic Cable Ship Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. Fitted with 3 cable tanks, two of 55 ft dia and one 42 ft dia., all being 32 ft high, giving a storage capacity of 156,119 cubic feet or 2168 nm of 1¼ inch cable. Three smaller tanks each with a capacity of 3,000 cu. ft. for storing repair cable were fitted between the main tanks. The cable laying equipment consisted of a linear cable engine in the stern and two paying out-picking up machines forward with three 10 ft dia bow sheaves and gantry for laying rigid repeaters." Laid cable from 1963 through the 1990s. Interesting collectible for telecommunications or specialty ships.