Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables
- Made:
- 1883-1886
- part of archive:
- Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables
- maker:
- Lucas, Francis Robert
Covers repairs to the Brazilian cable (St. Vincent-Pernambuco section) 1883; laying the duplicate Madeira-St. Vincent cable 1884, the direct Spanish cable (Lizard-Bilbao) 1884, the St. Vincent-Pernambuco cable 1884 (and repairs to No.1 Madeira-St. Vincent section), the Zanzibar-Mozambique duplicate cable 1885, and the African direct cable (Bathurst-Bonny) 1886 (for which a printed programme re laying is included). Details include journals of voyages of cable ships and abstracts of Engineer's log, copy telegrams, correspondence and reports to Admiral Richards.
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- Identifier:
- MS/0462/1
- Access:
- Open Access
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MS/0461-MS/0464 are all part of 1984-1432
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