An item reported that the Telegraph cable between Le Havre , France and the USA was broken on a distance 160 nautical miles of Brest 5 kilometres . The broken part was lying in a deep part of the ocean and it would take at least 12 hours to lift it. The repairs would take a long time was expected.
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1. The website supplied some details of this ship in service between 1913/1914 (launched in April 1914 at the shipyard Chantiers de la Méditeranée ) and 1952 with as dimensions 88,15 x 12,53 x 7,22 metres and a measurement of2,316 tons. She foundered off Brest on 19 December 1952 and broken up completed at Sunderland on 23 March 1954. Build for the Compagnie française des câbles télégraphiques, sold in 1929 to the All American Cables&Radio Incorporation and in 1946 to the L’administration française des Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones. For a photo see the link http://fr.academic.ru/pictures/frwiki/74/Jeramec-1913.jpg. The website http://www.ellisisland.org/shipping/Formatship.asp?shipid=3997claimed that she was build in 1914 by the shipyard of Mediterranee, Le Havre, a service speed of 12,5 knots, in 1946 sold to the Additional Arrival, renamed Pierre Picard, foundered off Brest in 1952 and finally broken up in 1954.
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