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Cable & Wireless buildings in Porthcurno, with corn in the field in the background.

Britains Ocean Telegraph Cables fan out into the Atlantic from the sandy beach of Porthcurno, a Cornish cove near Land's End. These cables, which are linked with the 155,000-mile network owned by Cable & Wireless Ltd., are operated from the company's…

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.

Engineers from the Plymouth Area THQ Marine Branch landing a shore-end at Porthcurno (Cornwall) from the cable ship Monarch.

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…

C.S. Cable Enterprise (4,200 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd in 1964, seen here on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

C.S. Edward Wilshaw (2,247 tons gross) built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson in 1949, seen here leaving the Tyne for her sea trials.

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

(duplicate of SHIP 4.031)

C.S. Retriever, weighing 4,000 tons gross, built for Cable & Wireless by Cammell, Laird & Co, Ltd (shipbuilders and engineers) in 1960, seen here in 1961 on her sea trials off the Scottish coast.

C.S. Stanley Angwin (2,500 tons gross), built for Cable & Wireless by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd in 1952. Seen here on her sea trials in the North Sea.

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

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Names on the back:
Summerull, Firmin, Watkins, Maner, ?, Bartlett,
Cleavor, Barlow, Bentley
Talbot, Mockett, Purvis, Hanson, Stevenson

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…

Cable & Wireless granite pyramid marking the 1880 cable landing.