History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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CS Silvergray |
CS SILVERGRAY Built in 1920 by McDougall-Duluth S.B. Company, Minnesota Length 251.0 ft Breadth 43.7 ft Depth 22.2 ft Gross tonnage 2456 Originally a molasses carrier named Julius Kessler. Purchased by India Rubber Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Company in 1922 and fitted with a double paying out-picking up machine forward and a paying out machine aft, supplied by Johnson and Phillips, which were installed on the forward and aft well decks. In 1933 Silvergray was sold to the Medway Steam Packet Company; the ship was broken up two years later.
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Last revised: 7 October, 2011 |
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