# THE U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT CABLESHIP "DELLWOOD"

THE U.S. ARMY TRANSPORT CABLESHIP "DELLWOOD" Produced: 1924 Description On the laying of the Alaskan cable by the Signal Cords in 1924. Reel 1, the Dellwood departs from Seattle, Wash., passes through the Panama Canal, and docks at Woolwich, London. Cable is loaded aboard the ship. Reel 2, the old cable is raised by a grapnel at Seattle. Seamen splice cable. The Dellwood steams to sea. Col. Gibbs of the Signal Corps supervises the paying out of cable from tanks on the Dellwood. The cable is laid across the portage at Trocadero Bay, Alaska, and winched through mud flats. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35621

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1924
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-448-r1)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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