Browse Items (17500 total)

COMM 8.017.tif
During April 1965, C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500-ton gross) surveyed the route for the Tortola-Bermuda telephone cable which will provide the northern outlet for the 21-million W.I. dollar project in the Eastern Caribbean to improve inter-island and…

COMM 8.016.tif
This photograph shows survey operations on board the C.S. Recorder in the Mediterranean for the Mat I telephone cable project. The ship was on charter to Italcable for the work. On the foredeck, you can see the survey sled.

COMM 8.009.tif
Cable & Wireless telegraph form.

ARTS 9.007.tif
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

COMM 9.001.tif
General view of one of the many engineering training departments showing telegraph relay equipment for student training at the Cable & Wireless Engineering College in Porthcurno.

SHIP 4.031.tif
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)

Tags:

M.1558.tif
C D of Penzance Conservation Area October 2005 located in the M neg box. 2005..

C Ds from Robin Lenman of Serena Wadham Archive Catalogue/Chronological lists/photos stored in the Archives Room. Morrab Library CopyNO NEGATIVE OR PHOTOGRAPH PRESENT

C0MM 8.028.tif
CS MERCURY cable tank showing inner cone, also the crinoline is shown on the tank bottom.

COMM 8.019.tif
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…

Built in 1919 No 1530 Registered with British Transport Commission No 3304 in 1968

Built in 1929 Registered wth British Railway Commission No 3033 1968

Built 1926 Registered with British Railway Commission No 3302 1968

COMM 6.010.tif
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…

COMM 6.002.tif
This photograph shows submarine telephone cable (shore end) on the seabed off Bermuda, part of the Canberra Project.

COMM 6.008.tif
A blurry photo of a piece of equipment used at Cable & Wireless, Porthcurno.
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2