What is a cable

[yello]

Weren't despatches a similar sort of thing? Only military rather than diplomatic thing. Do you still here folk say things like 'being mentioned in despatches'?

 

[killiekosmos]

Is it not a nautical measurement, one tenth of a nautical mile?

 

[Bay Runner]

A cable = a 10th of a nautical mile or 200 yards

 

[cyberknight]

Funny how the guy in charge of wiki leaks is suddenly wanted for a crime?....

Sounds a lot like the various governments are trying to shut the guy up

 

[upsidedown]

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And the naval name for a chain.........

 

[Norm]

And the naval name for a chain.........

Sorry but that's not correct.

A chain is 22 yards, a cable is 608 feet (I could raise an ironic at that but it does vary a bit depending on whether you use the imperial or post-imperial nautical mile).

 

[Hover Fly]

Weren't despatches a similar sort of thing? Only military rather than diplomatic thing. Do you still here folk say things like 'being mentioned in despatches'?

They still do it, when the senior officer in the field makes his report back to Whitehall. Nowadays the award is a silver oak leaf, I has one.

 

[asterix]

Sorry but that's not correct.

A chain is 22 yards, a cable is 608 feet (I could raise an ironic at that but it does vary a bit depending on whether you use the imperial or post-imperial nautical mile).

Sorry but it could be correct. An anchor chain is often referred to as the anchor cable. On small craft it is usually made up of 15 fathom lengths, shackled together.

 

[2Loose]

Funny how the guy in charge of wiki leaks is suddenly wanted for a crime?....

Sounds a lot like the various governments are trying to shut the guy up

I think if you look into it you will find a couple of angry women behind the charges. Mr. Assange 'met' one woman (Anna Ardin) at a conference and then the next month 'met' another. The first 'lady' then conspired with the second to make a complaint...

No doubt the guy's political reputation is ensuring that this is pushed as far as it can be, with several nations governments' waiting in the wings to try and stick the boot in further, but ultimately it appears to boil down to a jealous woman (or two).

 

[Fab Foodie]

One of my dearest friends was one, back in the day. He still bangs on about it's romance, esprit de corps and tales of derring do as he gunned his BSA 125 into life.

And the old joke....
What's red and throbs between mens legs... a GPO moped....

IGMC

 

[Fab Foodie]

Sorry but it could be correct. An anchor chain is often referred to as the anchor cable. On small craft it is usually made up of 15 fathom lengths, shackled together.

I heard that Vince cable bloke being described as a bit of an anchor the other day... least that's what I though he said...