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Electric cable mounted on plaque
Damaged section of electric cable on a wooden base with a brass plate inscribed: ‘PIECE OF CONCENTRIC ELECTRIC CABLE / LAID UNDER ROAD SOUTH SIDE OF NO. 8 SLIP / DURING THE BUILDING OF H.M.S. AFRICA IN / 1903 – 4 VERY HEAVY LOADS WERE PASSED OVER / IT A SMALL STONE WAS WORKED THROUGH THE / LEAD CASING INTO THE COPPER CONDUCTORS / WITH THE ABOVE RESULT.’
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Object Details
| ID: | REL0202 |
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| Collection: | Relics |
| Type: | Electric cable |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Africa (1905) |
| Date made: | 1903 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 73 mm x 305 mm x 220 mm |