Cableships and Submarine Cables
Details:
- Author(s) Haigh, Kenneth R
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1978
- Pages 2nd ed; 454pp; illus
- Publisher Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd
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Library:
- Name Greenwich Heritage Centre
- City Woolwich
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode SE18 6ST
- Visit Greenwich Heritage Centre's website
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Notes:
First published 1968. British Library has first edition. International account. Arranged by name of cableship owning company and within that by ships operated. British companies cover both cable construction / laying and cable operating and include Gutta Persha Co [no ships listed]; Glass, Elliott & Co; R S Newall & Co; Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co Ltd; Siemens Brothers Ltd; W T Henley Telegraph Works Ltd; India Rubber Gutta Persha & Telegraph Works Co Ltd; Submarine Cables Ltd; General Post Office; Cable & Wireless Ltd / Imperial & International Communications Ltd; other individual cable operating companies that later were historical constituents of Cable & Wireless Ltd. The chief function of the publication is to provide historical profiles / illustrations of ships operated