£1,700
AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING TELEGRAPH CABLE DISPLAY FROM THE S.S. DACIA, CIRCA 1915
with sectional examples, of light, heavy and deep-sea cable, framing a cut-away silver chart with gold and silver wire routes between London and Casablanca, with silver plaque inscribed TO BERT WORK FROM CHRIS GRAY, AS A SOUVENIR OF OUR MEETING IN PARIS (1915) AND OF WAR WORK DONE BY S.S. 'DACIA', with glazed compartment containing two grains of wheat above, with label inscribed GRAIN OF WHEAT PICKED UP ATTACHED TO CABLE FROM SHIP TORPEDOED BY GERMAN SUBMARINE, contained within plush-lined glazed case -- 16 x 9½in. (40.5 x 24cm.)
As soon as War was declared in August 1914, the 1,856 ton cable ship Dacia was sent to divert German submarine cables for intelligence gathering, a role in which she enjoyed some success. She was the process of diverting the German South American cable towards Brest when she was spotted on 3rd December 1916 by U-38 lying off Funchal, Madeira, torpedoed and sunk.
Fine condition overall.
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