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物語
This cable layer was built in 1902 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd. in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
歴史的注記
The Restorer lay at the Outer Wharf in Victoria BC Canada with a skeleton crew on board. This vessel was used only in the case of a break in the Trans-Pacific Cable. Her registry was changed during the First World War to USA to avoid attack by the German Navy. (This story cannot be verified because this vessel does not show up in the Merchant Vessels of the United States.) this vessel was dismantled in San Francisco in 1951 by the Walter Johnson Co. The ship's bell is in the collection of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia.
所有者と船長
In 1903 she was owned by Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Ltd., and operated out of Singapore.
In 1908 she was stationed at Esquimalt BC under British Registry.
In 1914 she was placed in US Registry and sent to Seattle WA.
In 1918 she returned to Esquimalt BC Canada.
In 1950 she was decommissioned and Captain J.H. Connelly, was her master at that time.
In 1951 she was towed by Captain Fred MacFarlane in the tug Island Sovereign to San Francisco CA USA to be scrapped.
船長
Captain W. G. H. Morrell (1902); Captain Basil Combe; Captain W.T. Gagnon; Captain Donald Cantell; Captain James L. Thacker; Captain J.H. Connelly (1950);
動力換装
At the end of 1915 Restorer returned to Esquimalt to be converted at Yarrows Shipyard from coal burning to oil burning.
参考文献
- Newell, G. (1977)
- atlantic-cable.com ↗
