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A shipbuilders' model of the cable layer ship C/S "Restorer" for the Commercial Cable Co., British, circa 1902
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Find your local specialistA shipbuilders' model of the cable layer ship C/S "Restorer" for the Commercial Cable Co.
British, circa 1902
British, circa 1902
105 x 45 x 28-½ in.(267 x 114 x 72.5 cm.) cased.
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Built by Armstrong & Whitworth & Co in Newcastle in 1902, the C/S Restorer measured 385.4 ft in length, 44 ft in breadth, 20.9 ft in draft and weighed 3,180 gross tones. She served as a cable laying and repair for the Commercial Cable Company and Western Union Corporation and during her lifetime she laid some 5,000 miles of cable from San Francisco to Singapore , Attu to Australia and China to Fanning Islands. She also worked for the Netherlands East Indies government in Singapore during which time she helped lay the first ever undersea cable to cross the Pacific. The C/S Restorer was scrapped in 1951.
























