cable-laying

Once it was found, the search ship was replaced in late April with the cable-laying ship Ile de Sein, operated by Alcatel-Lucent and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs of France.

Investigators Find Air France Jet's Black Box Daniel Michaels 2011

The consortium later became the Great Northern Telegraph Company, with cable-laying activities as far away as Russia and Japan.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The consortium later became the Great Northern Telegraph Company, with cable-laying activities as far away as Russia and Japan.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The federal agency in charge of undersea cable-laying operations, as well as gas and oil ventures, has only a vague idea of where chemical weapons were thrown into the ocean, spokesman Gary Strasburg said.

The Deadliness Below 2007

He said the cable-laying vessel CS Nexus, which had 5000km of cable on board, would run as far as Gabon, where its cable would be spliced with that laid by another vessel from Portugal.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

How Denard came to acquire the cable-laying ship was still a mystery in Norway, however.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

As it floats on water, it ought to be of great value on ships, whilst of late years its employment in the manufacture of light ocean telegraph cables has been seriously considered, showing, as it does, an advantage over other materials by taking a convex curve to the water surface -- an important condition in cable-laying.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

Our work at Locre was not confined to riding and cable-laying.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

In spite of this warning, or, perhaps, because Peter Cooper succeeded in overcoming Mr. Kendall's objections, Morse did go out on the next cable-laying expedition, and yet he found in the end that Mr. Kendall's suspicions were by no means unjustified.

Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

It was the most professional cable-laying that any one at that time could do, and it succeeded, not brilliantly, but well enough to encourage the telephone engineers to go ahead.

The History of the Telephone 1910