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Submarine cable with mount
A portion of a submarine cable. The cable is detached from its mount. The metal cable is covered in gutta percha on the outside with two brass wahsers near the top of the wire. It is a section of the earliest type of "deep sea" submarine cable.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAB0119 |
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| Collection: | Communications and signalling |
| Type: | Submarine cable |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Edinburgh (1855); Hibernia (1861) Norseman IV 1885 |
| Date made: | 1874 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Diameter: 30 mm;Overall: 182 mm |
| Parts: | Submarine cable with mount |