Album 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
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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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- Identifier:
- MS/0462/3
- Access:
- Open Access
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