Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

PART OF:: Albums 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

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 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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Extent:: 20
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Identifier:: MS/0462/1

Access:: Open Access

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

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Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables