New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-20
MEANS TO BE ADOPTED FOR IT'S RECOVERY.

MEANS TO BE ADOPTED FOR IT'S RECOVERY.
Tie London Times correspondent on the west
Of ireland describes the means which will be
adopted to recover the old cable. He writes:
All the vessels which have been sent out to sup
ply the squadron with coal have, it IS belieyedt
already arrived at New FOundland. As soon as
the Great Eastern has completed her work, that
vessel with the Terrific Albany and Midway.
will at once and with all speed, working night and
day, proceed to fill mp with fuel. The IerrlhG
and Albany will be coaled first and start directly
afterward for the exact latitude and longitude III
which the cable Of last year was broken. When
this exact spot is aseertaned, marked buoys,
with which both ships are provided, will be moored
for guidance in graphing .
these ships but in case of their not joining their
consorts after the marked buoys,' are
placed, the Albany will prodeed to graphic tor
the cable of last year. This vessel, with all the
ships of the squadron, is equipped with the most
perfect hauling in and paying out machinery, with
an ample store of buoys marked buoyS' wire
graphing ropes, and thermometers to &show the
strain on all parts of the ropes and apparatus
used. After the buoys are placed, the Albany
will at once proceed to sweep" for the end Of
the cable of 1866 This somewhat anxious and
most laborious process IS effected by the SHIPS IN
search of the wire carefully lowering their Crap
nels till the bottom is asCertalned with certainty,
and then slowly steaming, at right angles across
the line along which the cable has been laid ten
miles each way to the north and south OF 1t.
On the north side they would have to go more
than twenty miles to reach the defunct wire of
1858, and at least thirty miles to the south OF the
proper route to jeopardize that which it is be;
lieved here has Just been laid. As, however, all
the vessels sweeping for the wire are strictly
limited to distance of ten miles north or south
of its ascertaining positions there Is little fear q
their catching anything but what they are ~
searchYof; for, even in the densest fog the dead
reckoning of the ship and speed of engines would
show the distance run. In case the Albany CRAP
ping the end of astyear's rope. she is gently II
lift as far as possible and as far as is consisten
without at all approaching the breaking strain
The grapnel rope is then to be moored to an lm
mense buoy, and then secured. She is again t
grapple for the wire further to the east OF Englls
side till she succeeds in again lifting it. Hs
Thus again and again, her labors will be contir
ued till a series of "bights" are brought near t
the surface of the ocean, so that the arrival c
the Great Eastern any one of these loops may b
at once and easily raised and the splice made
More than enough of the cable will then renal
to enable her TO continue, or rather we Shout
say complete the work of crrrying the secoh
wire to Newfoundland. If, however, the EGrei
Eastern and Midway arrive before the end of IL
cable is found by the Albany, all three ships wi
at once take up their positions and e9mment
"sWeepiug with their grapnels." The MedWay
to be to the extreme west with the greatest Ettll
strain; the Great Eastern in the middle, with
smaller lifting power; and the Albany three NIL
to the east of the Great Eastern, with the lea
lifting power of all.
L
wire half way up will be held by the grapnels
1.-THE Great Eastern, and the strain on the rope
dueed by its being partially supported by 7
Midway It is not intended to try to raise t
actual end of the heavy cable broken last year,
this is hampered with the heavy grapnels a
heavier wire ropes which were used in vain
recover it last autumn, and which, if anything
known with certainty of deep-sea souhdings,
believed tobe lying in a massive tange over
end of the rope-a weight which nothing COZ
raise. Directly, therefore, that the Alba
has succeeded in getting her end
the line, and the Great Eastern
Midway have secured their positions,
Albany will steam ahead at full speed, SO as
break the portion of the line she has graph
and leave the end free to come up untettered
the obstacles heaped upon it in the efforts to
cover it. She viii then return and keep ms
the Midway, taking from the latter vesse3!!
grip of the wire, and holding on by 1t till
Great Eastern has spliced, if possible, her
The Terrible in all cases will assist in carry
messages from ship to ship. She will also
ahead of the Great Eastern, and direct hel
alter her course, by firing one gun for
helm, and two,guns for helm starboard. II
guns are to signify danger ahead, either in
Of ships and ice One gun from the Great
ern is the signal to bring all her consorts arc
her immediately,