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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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"Tuesday.--Another
twenty-four
hours
of
uninterrupted
success.
All
day
yesterday
it
was
so
calm
that
the
masts
of
our
convoy
were
reflected
in
the
ocean,
an
unusual
thing
to
see.
A
large
shoal
of
porpoises
gambolled
about
us
for
half
an
hour.
A
glorious
sunset,
and
later,
a
crescent
moon,
which
we
hope
to
see
in
the
brightness
of
her
full,
lighting
our
way
into
Trinity
Bay
before
the
days
of
this
July
shall
have
ended."
But
the
whole
night
did
not
pass
away
so
tranquilly.
By
midnight
the
rain
fell
fast,
and
the
wind
blew
fiercely,
and
then
occurred
the
only
real
alarm
of
the
voyage.
The
scene
is
thus
described
by
Mr.
Deane:
"All
went
on
well
until
twenty
minutes
past
twelve
A.M.,
Greenwich
time,
when
the
first
real
shock
was
given
to
the
success
which
has
hitherto
attended
us,
and
this
time
we
had
real
cause
to
be
alarmed.
A
foul
flake
took
place
in
the
after
tank.
The
engines
were
immediately
turned
astern,
and
the
paying
out
of
the
cable
stopped.
We
were
all
soon
on
deck,
and
learned
that
the
running
or
paying-out
part
of
the
coil
had
caught
three
turns
of
the
flake
immediately
under
it,
carried
them
into
the
eye
of
the
coil,
fouling
the
lay
out,
and
hauling
up
one
and
a
half
turns
from
the
outside,
and
five
turns
in
the
eye
of
the
under
flake.
This
was
stopped,
fortunately,
before
entering
the
paying
out
machinery.
Stoppers
of
hemp
also
were
put
on
near
the
V-wheel
astern,
and
Mr.
Canning
gave
orders
to
stand
by
to
let
go
the
buoy.
This
was
not
very
cheering
to
hear,
but
his
calm
and
collected
manner
gave
us
all
confidence
that
his
skill
and
experience
would
extricate
the
cable
from
the
obvious
danger
in
which
it
was
placed.
No
fishing
line
was
ever
entangled
worse
than
the
rope
was
when
thrust
up
in
apparently
hopeless
knots
from
the
eye
of
the
coil
to
the
deck.
There
at
least
five
hundred
feet
of
rope
lay
in
this
state,
in
the
midst
of
thick
rain
and
increasing
wind.
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