INDEX TO ILLUSTEATIONS. 



Sounding. 



Johnson and Phillips' Sounding Machine 



Lncas' Snapper 



Lucas' Sounding Machine 



Ditto with Steam Recovery 



Mounting of, on Ship's Rail 



Sherlock's Detacher for Sinkers. 



Silvertown Detaching Gear 



Silvertown Sounding Machine 



Silvertown Sounding Tube 



Stallibrass Sounding Tube 



Taking a Sounding 



Stoppers and Stoppering. 



Cable Stoppered at Bows 

 Deck Hooks for Stoppering 

 Kingsford's Cable Grip ... 

 Kingsford's Mechanical Stopper... 

 Manilla Rope Stopper 

 Manner of fixing Rope Stopper on Cable 

 Pulling up Stopper 

 Stoppering Cable at Bows 



Submarine Sentry. 



James' Submarine Sentry 

 Sentry Overturned 

 Sentry Trailing 

 Winch for Lowering 



Tanks. 



Bellmouth over Tank 



Capacity of... 



Coiling in Tank on " Great Eastern"... 



Cones and Rings in 



Distribution of Cable in Ship's Tank ... 



Feather Edge in Coiling... 



Li-leads to Tank House ... 



Joint in Rings of . . . 



Manner of fixing Cable Ends ... 



Position of, in Ship 



Sullivan's Identification of Cables in ... 



Tank House at Messrs. Siemens Bros. & Co.'s Works 



Tank Shed at Cape Town 



Tank Sheds at Perim 



Testing Cable in Tank ... 



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