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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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Thus,
after
three
anxious
hours,
the
danger
was
past,
and
the
next
morning
the
report
of
the
ship
is,
"A
fresh
breeze
from
the
southward,
a
dull
gray
sky,
with
occasional
rain,
and
a
moderate
sea."
"Thursday.--There
was
a
fresh
breeze
in
the
afternoon
yesterday,
increasing
toward
evening.
It
brought
a
heavy
swell
on
the
port
quarter,
which
caused
the
ship
to
roll.
The
paying
out
from
the
after
tank
went
on
steadily.
Two
of
the
large
buoys
were
lifted
by
derrick
from
the
deck
near
the
bows
of
the
ship,
and
placed
in
position
on
the
port
and
starboard
side
of
the
forward
pick-up
machinery,
ready
for
letting
go
if
necessary.
The
sun
went
down
with
an
angry
look,
and
the
scud
came
rapidly
from
the
eastward,
the
sea
rising.
A
wind
dead
aft
is
not
the
best
for
cable
laying,
particularly
if
any
accident
should
take
place.
By
half-past
eleven
to-night
we
shall
have
exhausted
the
contents
of
the
after
tank,
and
the
cable
will
then
be
paid
out
from
the
fore
tank
along
the
trough
to
the
stern,
the
distance
from
the
centre
of
the
tank
to
the
paying-out
machinery
being
four
hundred
and
ninety-four
feet.
Last
night
the
swell
was
very
heavy,
to
which
the
Great
Eastern
proved
herself
not
insensible.
Her
rolling,
like
everything
else
appertaining
to
her,
is
done
on
a
grand
scale.
We
see
the
liveliness
with
which
that
operation
is
performed
on
board
the
Albany
and
Medway,
and
we
are
not
at
all
disposed
to
be
too
critical
in
our
observations
on
our
own
movements.
The
speed
of
the
ship
was
kept
at
four
and
a
half
during
the
night--the
slower
the
better,
is
the
opinion
of
all
on
board--festina
lente.
We
are
consuming
about
one
hundred
tons
a
day
of
the
seven
thousand
tons
of
coal
which
we
had
on
board
when
we
left
Berehaven,
and
Mr.
Beckwith,
who
has
been
engineer
of
the
Great
Eastern
from
her
first
voyage
to
the
present
moment,
says
her
engines
were
never
in
better
order;
and
their
appearance
and
working
do
him
and
his
able
staff
of
assistant
engineers
the
greatest
credit.
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