Contractor Joe C Keating
October 1965; Caherciveen contractor Joe C Keating, lifts Transatlantic cable on his 100 ft Salvage Adventurer, that he bought to lift 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: BST008
Created: October 01, 1965
Author: © Padraig & Joan Kennelly/Kennelly Archive
© Kennelly Archive
Photo size: 21.4 Mpixels (61.2 MB uncompressed) - 3988x5361 pixels (13.3x17.9 in / 33.8x45.4 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: 1965, Agricultural & Marine, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland, Related Images 650346, Salvage, Sixties, Telegraph Cable
Published in: All Images, Ballinskelligs, Caherciveen, Agricultural & Marine, Kerry, 1965, Waterville
