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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

CS Restorer
by Dirk van Oudenol

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Services Rendered by C.S. Restorer

Perhaps it might be well to say at this point that the total annual expenses of maintaining the ship, while under direct supervision, have always been borne by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. The only exception was during WW II when it was on bare boat charter to the U. S. War Shipping Administration. For several years it was the only ship in the North Pacific area that was large enough to make the repairs it was called upon to perform. As long as submarine telegraph cable lines are maintained, ships must be kept in service to make repairs when interruptions occur.

In retrospect, it would seem that other telegraph administrations with no repair facilities of their own should have made some contribution towards the cost of maintaining the ship by the payment of an annual amount for having the ship on "Call" or by the payment of an agreed upon amount for maintaining the ship while in port. It is our understanding that the subject was breached at different times in the past but without favorable results. Other administrations were quite contented to pay normal per diem charter rates when the ship was wanted for repair work on their lines. The Alaska Communications System people were never agreeable to the payment of the regular per diem charter rate, and on one occasion in the early days of WW II, before the ship was requisitioned by Government, forced the Company to renegotiate its charges through an agency of the U. S. Signal Corps.

The question naturally arises what the Pacific Cable Board would do, for example, in the way of repair work on their cables, if the Restorer were retired from service.

Liquidation of CPCC (Indemnification Agreement)

The CPCC was dissolved as a corporation on 4/12/1951, with the terms being set out, and signed by the holders of all the outstanding CPCC Shares. These were C&W Ltd., The GNTC Ltd., and American Cable & Radio Corporation. On 1/7/1952, the then surviving directors of CPCC instituted a proceeding in the Supreme Court, New York County, to determine (1) the company's obligations to its employees under the company's pension plan and otherwise, and (2) the company's obligations to creditors. On 15/6/1953 the Supreme Court rendered its decision. The details are not considered of sufficient interest to be sufficiently relevant to this article to be printed here.

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Copyright © 2006 Dirk van Oudenol

Last revised: 22 July, 2006

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