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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
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Henry M. Field
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At
half-past
eleven
we
informed
her
that
when
at
the
buoy
off
Heart's
Content
she
should
have
her
paddle-box
boat
and
two
cutters
ready
to
be
alongside
immediately,
for
holding
the
bight
of
the
cable
during
the
splice
and
laying
the
shore
end.
The
Medway
was
told
at
the
same
time
to
prepare
two
five-inch
ropes,
and
two
large
mushroom
anchors,
with
fifty
fathoms
of
chain,
for
anchoring
during
the
splice
in
one
hundred
and
seventy
fathoms
of
water,
and
we
intimated
to
her
that
when
inside
of
Trinity
Bay
we
should
signal
for
two
boats
to
take
hands
on
board
her
for
shore
end.
News
of
to-day,
telegram
from
Mr.
Glass
in
reply
to
one
from
Mr.
Canning:
I
congratulate
you
all
most
sincerely
on
your
arrival
in
one
hundred
and
thirty
fathoms.
I
hope
nothing
will
interfere
to
mar
the
hitherto
brilliant
success,
and
that
the
cable
will
be
landed
to-morrow.'"
As
the
voyage
is
about
to
end,
we
give
the
distances
run
from
day
to
day,
which
show
a
remarkable
uniformity
of
progress:
Distance
Run.
Cable
Paid
Out.
Saturday,
fourteenth,
108
115
Sunday,
fifteenth,
128
139
Monday,
sixteenth,
115
137
Tuesday,
seventeenth,
117
138
Wednesday,
eighteenth,
104
125
Thursday,
nineteenth,
112
129
Friday,
twentieth,
117
127
Saturday,
twenty-first,
121
136
Sunday,
twenty-second,
123
133
Monday,
twenty-third,
121
138
Tuesday,
twenty-fourth,
120
135
Wednesday,
twenty-fifth,
119
130
Thursday,
twenty-sixth,
128
134
Friday,
twenty-seventh.
100
104
From
this
it
appears
that
the
speed
of
the
ship
was
exactly
according
to
the
running
time
fixed
before
she
left
England.
On
the
last
voyage
it
was
thought
that
she
had
once
or
twice
run
too
fast,
and
thus
exposed
the
cable
to
danger.
It
was,
therefore,
decided
to
go
slowly
but
surely.
Holding
her
back
to
this
moderate
pace,
her
average
speed,
from
the
time
the
splice
was
made
till
they
saw
land,
was
a
little
less
than
five
nautical
miles
an
hour,
while
the
cable
was
paid
out
at
an
average
of
not
quite
five
and
a
half
miles.
Thus
the
total
slack
was
about
eleven
per
cent,
showing
that
the
cable
was
laid
almost
in
a
straight
line,
allowing
for
the
swells
and
hollows
in
the
bottom
of
the
sea.
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