. \ by two LCM(6)~s, tno IAXLtm and 2 ~’ss 2. In ordor to load and lay the armored oable, whioh till b. approximately1* inches in dlametor with splioes aboti 3 inehs in diameter, and uhieh weighe ,aboutone ton per thousand feet of cable, it will be neoessary to provide ● pouer-drimn d-, fairleadsand short outriggersor be-. and ● n “A”-fram, It is propoeod to eoil a oable on the main deok between frames 9 and 16 with the centir of the ooil midway between frames 12 and 13. It till be paid out through a block in an ‘An-frameereeted owr the center of the ooil, through a series of blooks on the euperstruoturedeok, and a blook near the end of a short outrigger pro~oting from the side of the vessel at frame 10, on the ulnduard side. To provide these fieilitieethe following modifloatione to the LSM are proposed. (a) Cable tineh. Install one oable uinoh ●quipped with a flat, flanged dr~ 46 inohes in dlaaeter and about 30 inohes In width. The drum should be motor driven, with ● mriable speed in either dlreo- tion of fr~ S to 10 r.p.m. Power ●hould be ●ffioient to prov~de a one ton pull on the cable at S r.p.m. Wedged shaped ‘shoes. should be provided for eliding the turne of oable acrosa the fmoe of the drun, when the ha is rotated in ●ither direotion. The dr~ aluft is to be supported on one side of the dmm only to petit throwing bighte of the cable ●round the drum. The dr= and “shoes” should be slmibr in desiq to those provided by BuShipe in nmking submarine oable la@ng modifioatione to AN (formerYN) type net tenbu in 1942. I’IMwlnoh chould be mounted amidshipe ●t frame 9 on a platform runming between and on the level of tb two superstructuredeoka. The platfom ●hould 19 Section XI