User:Spinningspark/Work in progress/Frederick Charles Webb

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A chain grapnel used for recovering submarine cables

A lot of information in the Smith source [1]

  • First person to drag for a cable with grapples.[1]
  • online copy of his bio in the Electrician
  • "Old cable stories retold", the Electrician
  • "The Electrician: (1896)". Bouverie House. 1896: 756. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) (snippet view on gbooks)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Haigh, p. 197