LONG SEARCH
BROKEN CABLE RECOVERED AFTER THREE YEARS SNAPPED BY TIDAL WAVE Halifax, Nov. 11. Its pug-like prow coated with rust and scars, a little grey vessel, the cable-ship, Lord Kelvin steamed quietly into the shelter of Halifax Harbour and docked) alongside the Westem Union Cable Company's pier. Down in the deep hold lay fathoms of mutilated and corroded cable that bore evidence of the long search' for a disrupted commujnication line. Month after month the Lord Kelvin had wallowed in the Atlantic ;as her crew grappled along the ocean bed for the line, torn adrift hy the disastrous tidal wave that swept the southern coast of Newfoundland during th'e winter of 1929. The Lord Kelvin had completed the search, began the following spring. It was just ianother "job," for the crew and the master of the Lord Kelvin, Capt. M. H. Bloomer, spoke lightly of it. He was more anxious to talk of the seientific aspect of the search. The cable, reeovered m-ore than three miles from the original course, was located after 20 attempts over a distanee of .some 40 miles. Only 10 miles of cable, however, was reeovered.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 2
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