COMMANDER TASK UNIT SEVEN
POINT THREE POINT SIX
u.S.S. LSM 250
c/o Fleet Fost Office
San Francisco, California
File No.
19 April 1948
CTU7.3.6/A9
Serial: 0018
Report of Submarine Cable Operations. (con't)
Subject:
‘used however on armored cables as it causes
the jute to break and jam in the stoppers.
6.
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Cable Types and Design.
(e)
The use of the 10-conductor amored Type 115-P
cable and the 3-conductor armored Type 113
cable proved quite satisfactory, and these
types of cable were laid withlittle difficulty.
The use of 5-conductor rubber
jacketed Type 104 cable proved unsatisfactory
under the conditions encountered and its use
was abandoned.
The first two cables laid
tested faulty due to defects in the cable
which were not evident on preliminary dry
tests.
The next two cables laid were immersed
and tested in an old evaporator tank filled
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