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| Picture No | 10216969 |
| Date | 1866 |
| Description | Buoys and Grapnels used in recovering the Atlantic Telegraph |
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The buoys and grapnels that were used to recover an Atlantic Telegraph Cable, September. The telegraph cable, which was laid in 1865 by the 'Great Eastern', broke in 1866 and was therefore pulled up from the ocean bed with the grapnels, mended and repositioned.
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| Source | The Illustrated London News. 1866, page 270 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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