The Stephan was designed by Johann Schütte . It had five decks and eight bulkheads reaching to the spard deck. The Stephan was equipped with four cable tanks, two each in front of and two behind the deckhouse , with diameters of 11 to 13 m and around 6 m depth, the central cone of which served as a drinking water tank . The Stephan had a double duplex machine at the front for laying cables and a bow roller with a diameter of 1.2 m with which the cables were picked up. From here the cable guide ran on the port side, past the cable tanks to the aft cable machine for laying out. The cable machines, pulleys, rear windows, two dynamometers in front and one dynamometer in the aft were manufactured by Achgelis in Bremerhaven.
history
The ship was built in 1902 near the Szczecin volcano . The launch took place in December 1902. The ship was commissioned on March 1, 1903. The ship was named after the Postmaster General of the Reich Post Office , Heinrich von Stephan . After the First World War, the ship was taken over by the USA, sold to the British Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company in 1922 and scrapped in 1926.
Stephan laid the following cables in the possession of the Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke :
