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C.S. Recorder, weighing 3,300 tons gross, built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1954, seen here in the Tyne as she went on her sea trials.

(duplicate of SHIP 4.034)

Group of four men wearing suits, probably staff from Cable & Wireless.

Photo taken by Mrs Phipps during a visit. Bob Ellick on right, Barry Willow next to him. They are from St Helena.

Staff (Richard Angove with Mr Elms and Mr Gibbens) in Cable & Wireless Control Room, Porthcurno

Delegates leaving Radio Conference for Helston. Bus AF 65 first in Feb 1904. PREVREF 1824 duplicate photo

Shore-end of a cable being floated in on drums at Cable & Wireless in Porthcurno. Ship in the distance and three men on the shore, two of whom are digging.

A sea plow designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories to bury the underwater telephone cable below the ocean floor is lifted from the sea by a crane aboard the John Cabot, a Canadian cable repair ship and icebreaker. The plow was used by the American…

Engineers from the Plymouth Area and Post Office's THQ Marine Branch landing the shore-end from HMTS Monarch (CS, if preferred) on Porthcurno Beach on 2 October 1979.

Cable & Wireless telegraph form

A general view of the main cable relay equipment room at Porthcurno Cable Station, looking west and showing the control consul, monitoring teleprinters, etc. in the foreground.

Richard Angove sitting at Supervisor's Desk at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno, surrounded by equipment.

An operator servicing the equipment at Cable & Wireless.

The Cable & Wireless sea plow at work cutting a trench for the cable on the seabed.

Cable & Wireless Copyright

This photograph shows a man loading cable in one of the three tanks on C.S. Mercury.

Cable & Wireless Copyright

Richard Angove at Supervisor's table at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.

Equipment at Porthcurno

PREVREF 1733 duplicate photo

Ladies operating a single-current Morse key. Note the 'sounder' backed by a reflecting device to localise the sound. In front of the key can be seen instruments for adjusting the signals and a galvanometer which indicates the presence or otherwise of…