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Engineers from the Plymouth area T.H.Q. Marine Branch landing a new shore end of a telephone cable at Porthcurno.

Porthcurno cable station (Cable & Wireless). View of cable chain relay equipment with commutation panels and test equipment. In the foreground, one 'wing' of the control console can be seen (bottom right) with FMVM panels in the centre rear. This…

Photo of engraving of The Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Mediterranean Telegraph titled 'The Cliffs at Porthcurnew Bay, Cornwall'.

From Illustrated London News 25/6/1870. See PREVREF 1786 & 1743

Photo of engraving titled 'Landing the cable at Porthcurnew [sic] Bay'.

From Illustrated London News 25/6/1870

Photo of engraving titled 'Laying the Submarine Telegraph between Malta and Gibraltar, off the Isle of Pantellaria'.

From Illustrated London News 11/8/1870

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

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…

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…

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…

General view of Goonhilly Earth Station taken from the road.

The bar at the Cable & Wireless Exiles Club in Porthcurno

Cable and Wireless Engineering College at Porthcurno

Major-General L.B. Nicholls visiting Porthcurno to view the site of the proposed £42,000 training school at Porthcurno. Left to right: W.E. Cleaver (principal of L.T.S. (?) and future principal of Porthcurno School); Mrs Nicholls; Major-General…

Entrance to Cable and Wireless Exiles Club with 'C S Refresher' lifebuoy

PREVREF 1772 duplicate photo

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.

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

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.

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…

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.