CIAL Home  

Back to archive index

Cable works at Quidi Vidi Lake, St. Johns, 1955

Photographs from George White's collection.

The photograph captions (as best I could read them) are reproduced below.

Quiddi Vidi Cables land between huts
Quiddi Vidi looking seaward from above gut 'BAMAFASH' in entrance
Quiddi Vidi The Gut from inshore
Beach inside the Gut (with local small boy who was always underfoot)
'Bamafash' towing G3 from ship in St Johns to boats in Quiddi Vidi
'Bamafash' towing G3
Ends of abaud [?] G3 secured to rocks by 'CF' One left centre and other extreme right over boats
In the Gut Investigating end on rocks Seaward end buoyed
G3 in position Splicing on and removing drums
Splicing on and removing drums
Splicing on and removing drums
U~R A3 seaward from landing
U~R Seaward from landing
U~R seaward from landing Splices A3~G3 at boat
Raising cable at landing SNF watching Cables land between huts
CIAL Home  

Back to archive index