COMMANDER TASK UNIT SEVEN
POINT THREE POINT SIX
U.S.S. LSM 250
c/o Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, California
File No.
CTU7.3.6/A9
19 April 1948
Serial: 0018
Subject:
Report of Submarine Cable Operations. (con't)
and LSM-378.
These ships had previously been
fitted out for cable laying at the Teminal
island and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyards respectively, under BuShips direction.
The
cable was coiled on the main deck and an "A"
frame, with a large block mounted at the apex
provided a fairlead directly over the coil.
From this block the cable lead through a series
of blocks and a snubbing device on the super-
structure deck to a block om an outrigger which
projected from the ship's side forward.
Dupli-
cate fairleads, snubbing devices and outriggers
made it possible to pay out the cable from
either side.
The cable was always leid fron
the weather side.
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Sectim VII
An electrically driven cable