Contractor Joe C Keating
October 1965; Caherciveen contractor Joe C. Keating (right), on his 100 ft Salvage Adventurer, picks up 300 miles of telegraph cable in Ballinskelligs Bay. Joe's Company, The Salvage Company of Ireland, started by lifting the Commercial Cable Company of Waterville Cable Links to World Service. The cable was composed of raw rubber, electrolytic copper, and steel.
Photo ID: BST001
Created: October 01, 1965
Author: © Padraig & Joan Kennelly/Kennelly Archive
© Kennelly Archive
Photo size: 21.7 Mpixels (62.1 MB uncompressed) - 5471x3967 pixels (18.2x13.2 in / 46.3x33.6 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: 1965, Agricultural & Marine, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland, Related Images 650346, Salvage, Sixties, Telegraph Cable
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