Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

PART OF:: Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

Made:: 1891-1896

part of archive:: Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

maker:: Lucas, Francis Robert

Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

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Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables
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Covers laying of Bombay-Aden triplicate cable 1891, Oye-Fanoe cable 1891, Lisbon-Azores cable 1893, Zanzibar-Seychelle-Mauritius cable 1893, Atlantic cable (Valentia-Hearts Content and Irish shore end) 1894, and Borkum-Vigo cable 1896. Details include some printed programmes re laying, journals of voyages of cable ships and abstracts from Engineer's log, copy correspondence and telegrams and reports to Admiral Richards and to W Shuter.

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Extent:: 215
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Identifier:: MS/0462/3

Access:: Open Access

System of Arrangement:: MS/0461-MS/0464 are all part of 1984-1432

copyright:: Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions

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Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables