The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-21


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THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
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Arrival or THE TERRIBLE AND GALATEA
Dl-c AT 81. JoHN's, Nj
Return Of the Great Eastern 30 England.
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HEAsT's CoN1faT, Aug. is. via AssT EAT, Aug. II.
The British war steamers Terrible and
Galatea arrived at st. Johns, n. F., at
nine o'clock on Tuesday evening the
18th inst.
The steamship Great Eastern returned
to Sheerness on the 18th inst. d
Capt. Napier reports as follows;
The cable parted on Wednesday the
I'd Inst, at noon, In nineteen hundred
and fifty fathoms of water.
1t was then grappled for three different
times and raised twelve hundred, nine
hundred and six hundred fathoms re-
spectively. Each time the graphing
broke but the cable remained unbroken.
The Great Eastern returned to England
for better and stronger graphing gear.
Mr.. Marley, one of the electricians,
writes most encouragingly in regard to
the cable. He says:
"We found no difficulty whatever in
graphing the cable, even at the greatest
depth of water. As soon as proper tackle
is prepared we will probably commence
graphing for the cable again, one hun.
dred miles east of the break where the
water is only fifteen hundred fathoms
deep. The buoy rides the gales well,
being fastened by piece of condemned
cable.
EXTRACT FROM THE LOG OF THE GREAT
EASTERN,
The following extract from the Log
Book of the Great Eastern, gives a sue
cinct history of the voyage up to the
time of return:
STEAMSHIP GREAT EAsTERy,
ATLANTIC OCEAN, n. lat 81 20 ". lon. 50, ,
O'Clock Friday even'g Aug. nth 1896.
The steamship Great Eastern sailed
from the More, off Sheerness, Saturday
July 18th, at IL 80 o'clock.
At half past two o'clock on Monday
afternoon, 18th, she overhauled the Caro-
line, that left London on the 5th inst.
with the shore end on board. She had
been detained by bad weather. We took
her in tow, and arrived off Valentia at
6.45 A. NJ, of Wednesday.
AS the weather was unfavOrable, the
Caroline went into Valentia harbor, and
the Great Eastern to Beerhaven, Bantry
Bay, followed the next day by her Ma
jesty's steamers Terrible and Sphinx.
The twenty-seven miles of the heavy
shore end were successfully laid from
the Caroline, towed by the steamer
Hawk, OH Saturday, the ed AT q
quarter past 5 clock, the next afternoon,
the splice between the main cable and
the shore end was completed, and the
Great Eastern, the Terrible and Sphinx
steamed towards Newfoundland, while
the Caroline and Hawk returned to Va
lentia.
All went on in the most satisfactory
manner until 2.20 A. NJ, on Monday the
oath, when partial loss of insulation
suddenly showed itself.
Shortly after this the speed of the ships
was reduced and the cable paid out more
slowly, while tests were applied tolocate
the fault, which was found to be in the
water some miles astern Of the Great Eas-
tern.
At $50 A. NJ, the cable was transfer
red to the picking up apparatus at the
bows, and we began to haul In the cable.
This operation was frequently suspen-
ded by want of steam in the boiler at
tached to the picking up apparatus, and
during the day portable boiler was
connected with the former.
At five minutes past 8 o'clock the next
morning the fault was brought on board
and found to have been caused by a
piece of wire similar to that used in the
manufacture of the cable, about two
inches long, having been forced between
the outer wire and through the gutta
percha into the copper wires.
Ten aud quarter miles of the cable
were recovered, the fault cut out and q
new splice made, the cable retransferred
to the paying out machine at the stern,
and at 4.I0 A. NJ, Tuesday, the 25th, all
was again in perfect order, and the fleet
on its way to America, having been de-
tanned 81 hours and 50 minutes.
AT noon on Wednesday, the 26th, the
Great Eastern was 17S miles from Valen-
tia, and there had been paid out, inclu-
ding the II miles on the shore end, 100
of cable; depth of water ], $50 fathoms
tests very good.
Thursday, July 27.-The ship ran in
the last "a hours 14l miles and paid out
l5s miles of cable; depth of water 2, 100
fathoms; tests very good.
Friday, July 28.-Distance made 100!
miles; cable paid out ia miles, water
j, $50 fathoms; tests very good -
Saturday, July 29,-Distance run 100
miles. Cable paidout lie miles. Depth
of water 300 fathoms. Tests very good.
AT 1905 P. H., it was discovered that
there was q serious fault in the cable
which entirely cut off communication
with the shore. The ship was stopped
and the cable transferred to the picking
up gear, which commenced hauling it
in at Ella F. N. After picking up two
and and quarter miles of cable, the
fault came on board, and on examina-
| ton proved to have been caused by q
stout piece of wire having been driven
entirely through the cable.
The two and quarter miles of cable
were recovered from depth of nineteen
hundred fathoms.
The operation of picking up from this
great depth was frequently interrupted
| by want of steaid.
The night being very dark and foggy
the operation of lowering the splice anc
transferring the cable to the paying GU
machinery at the stern was postponed
until the next morning.
The Great Eastern was, by the abb
management of Captain Anderson, KEEP
| up ali night tothe cable, and SO prevent