The Ocean Telegraph to India: A Narrative and a DiaryW. Blackwood, 1870 - 323 sayfa |
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afternoon anchor Anglo-Indian boat Bombay and Aden bright British British-Indian Telegraph buoy cable hands cable paid cable-house cable-laying Cape Captain Halpin cent of slack Chiltern coal coil commenced Construction and Maintenance Cotton Green course deck delay Directors dynamometer Eastern Egypt electricians engineers England Expedition Falmouth fathoms favourable going grapnel Gulf Gulf of Suez half-past harbour Hawk Hibernia Hindoos India Indian Government island John Pender laid LAND LINES land the shore land-line latitude laying London longitude look Maintenance Company Majesty's Government Malabar Point Malta messages miles of cable minutes morning night noon to-day ocean officers old Red Sea pany Parsee passed paying paying-out port Red Sea Red Sea cable rope round seen Shadwan Sherard Osborn ship ship's shore end side signal splice steamer stern submarine Suez Canal tank tele Telegraph Company Telegraph Construction tion vessel voyage William Cory wind wires yesterday
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