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File:Great Eastern Grappling Hook.jpg

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English: Grappling Hook used for lifting the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, on the Great Eastern.
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Source National Maritime Museum from Greenwich, United Kingdom via History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications (the first upload) and One of the 'Great Eastern's' grappling hooks (the second upload)
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21:51, 17 June 2007Thumbnail for version as of 21:51, 17 June 2007400 × 321 (36 KB)Oreo Priest{{Information |Description=Grappling Hook used for lifting the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable, on the Great Eastern |Source=National Maritime Museum, London via http://atlantic-cable.com/Article/1866Recovery/index.htm |Date=1866 |Author= |Permission=PD-old

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