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The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965.

This photograph shows the final splice on…

The Hong Kong/Guam section of SEACOM was laid during September and October of 1965. Assisted by Cable & Wireless Ltd, repair ship Cable Enterprise Mercury completed the lay into Guam on 22 October 1965. This photograph shows a repeater entering the…

This diagram shows a sectioned specimen of deep-sea, light-weight coaxial cable of the kind likely to be used by Cable & Wireless Ltd. and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation in the Anglo-Canadian Telephone Cable in 1961.

The same…

A detailed diagram of the sea plow on 'Operation Sea Plow'.

Underwater photograph of deep-sea divers adjusting tow line on sea low. The low, designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury undersea telephone cable below the ocean floor, was used by American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Long Lines…

This photo shows a repeater bypassing the cable laying out gear prior to being laid from CS Mercury.

C.S Retriver (4,000 tons) laid the shoe-end section of the Auckland/Sydney and Auckland/Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific Cable, which stretches from Vancouver in Canada to Sydney in Australia via Suva and Auckland in NZ.
This picture shows…

SEACOM 2 Shore and operation at Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong.
This picture shows the end of the trench showing the entry into the manhole. One cable already fitted with articulated piping. Ships crew left-right: Honorio Perez and Angel Chapelo.

During the second week in May, CS Recorder (3,349 tons) laid shore-ends at Jesselton of the Jesselton - Singapore section of the South East Asia Commonwealth telephone cable (SEACOM).
This picture shows: passing the Jesselton-Singapore shore end…

C S RETRIVEVER (4000 tons) laid the shore end sections of the Aukland - Sydney and Sydney - Suva sections of the Commonwealth Pacific cable, which stretches from Vancouver to Sydney via Suva and Aukland.
Seen off Muriwai beach.

CS MERCURY cable tank showing inner cone, also the crinoline is shown on the tank bottom.

Survey operations in the Mediterranean for Mat 1 telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work.
The picture shows TV screen showing the sled full of weed on ocean bed.

PREVREF 1772 duplicate photo

Cable and Wireless Engineering College at Porthcurno

General view of Goonhilly Earth Station taken from the road.

Operating C & W Relay Equipment. General view of cable relay equipment when moved into new tunnels early in WW2. This view shows half the room, a similar length lies behind the camera. The lamps on the wall (red homewards and green outwards) are…

Staff and probationers waiting on the cliffside for the arrival of a cable ship to lay a shore-end into the beach in 1876. Note: the new staff quarters in the background. The small wooden hut was then the cable terminal to be expanded to a bigger…

Richard Angove pictured at Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). This is a view of the cable chain control console. Teleprinters (Creed 75s), tape-readers and Creed Autos for monitoring purposes are centrally situated. Cable relay equipment is…

Names on photo
Arthur Thomas, Sidney Chappell, Terence McClary, John Richards, William Harvey, Richard Angove and Robert Kiddell.