COMMANDER ‘TASK UNIT SEVEN
POINT THREE POINT SIX
U.S.S. LSM 250
c/o Fleet Post Office
Sen Frencisco, California
File No.
CTU7.3.6/A9
;
19 April 1948
Serial: 0018
Subject:
1.
Report of Submarine Cable Operations. (con't)
Cable Repairs.
(a)
Several repair operations were necessary during the prozress of the installation, due to
damage from anchoring, landing craft, defective cable and other causes.
While in each
case repairs were successfully accomplished
the tendency of the cable to foul and cut
on the sharp coral
heads prevalent in this
area made repair operations slow and difficult.
Under some conditions in deeper water
they might be almost impossible, necessitating partial or complete replacement, partiou-
larly if time was an important factor.
For
that reason a 65,000 foot spliced length of
Type 115-P cable was coiled down on the
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