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flying red globular shapes at top aad bottom with a white 

 diamond shape between them. 



The full text of the three clauses in Article 5 of the " Eegu- 

 lations " is as follows : — 



(&.) A ship, whether a steam ship or a sailing ship, employed 

 in laying or in picking up a telegraph cable, shall at night 

 carry in the same position as the white light which steam ships 

 are required to carry, and, if a steam ship, in place of that 

 light, three lights in globular lanterns each not less than 

 lOin. in diameter, in a vertical line over one another, not less 

 than 6ft. apart ; the highest and lowest of these lights shall be 

 red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall be of such 

 a character that the red lights shall be visible at the same 

 distance as the white light. By day she shall carry, in a 

 vertical line, one over the other, not less than 6ft. apart, in 

 front of but not lower than her foremast head, three shapes, 

 not less than 2ft. in diameter, of which the top and bottom 

 shall be globular in shape and red in colour, and the middle 

 one diamond in shape and white. 



(c.) The ships referred to in this article, when not making 

 any way through the water, shall not carry the side lights, but 

 when making way shall carry them. 



{d.) The lights and shapes required to be shown by this 

 Article are to be taken by other ships as signals that the ship 

 showing them is not under command, and cannot, therefore, 

 get out of the way. 



We have now followed the movements and methods of 

 practice on board a modern cable-repairing steamer from the 

 moment of first dropping mark buoy to the moment of 

 completing the repair and casting the final splice overboard. 

 Incidentally some points of technical and general interest have 

 been alluded to ; but the ground to be covered in any study of 

 this subject is very wide, because no two cable ships are exactly 

 alike, and practice and methods differ in different companies. 

 The author proposes now to discuss some of the most distinctive 

 features in different repairing-ships. 



The Cable Ship " Electra." — The modern type of cable ship 

 is well represented by the "Electra," belonging to the Eastern 

 Telegraph Company. Built of steel in 1884 by Messrs. 



