History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

John Seymour
Cable-Laying
Master Mariner
1841 - 1898 abt

Copyright: Dougal Watson 2007 -
Voyage: 28 October 1875 - 08 June 1876.

S. S. Hibernia
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Introduction

This page concerns John Seymour's 1875 voyage, as first mate of the SS Hibernia, to Sydney, Australia (etc), to lay a submarine telegraph cable. The cable time-line page page records a cable: "1876. La Perouse, Sydney, Australia - Wakapauka, Wellington, New Zealand. Telcon. Eastern Extension Australia & China Telegraph Co. Hibernia - Edinburgh. System 1283 nm. HMS Challenger surveyed route. Sydney end of cable was diverted into Bondi Beach in 1917. WFS 1932".

Little material is presently available concerning this voyage. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.

Author and contact: Dougal Watson

The ship and her crew

Ship Hibernia. ON 29387. Registered London: 36/1873.
Owner Registered managing owner: Telegraph Construction Company, 38 Old Broad Street, London EC, England.
A voyage

from "London to Sydney and / or any port or ports in the Australian, New Zealand, and Cape Colonies, Indian & China Seas and Straits, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, & Japan, North & South Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, United States of America between Galveston & Portland [?]inclusive California & Oregon, West Indies, the Continent of Europe including the Mediterranean [?] and [??], for a period not to exceed two years, and back to a final port of discharge in the United Kingdom."

 

 
Ship's crew and personnel
Master Wilson Robert Cato (10.781),previously "same ship".
Mate John Seymour (34.778), previously same ship.
2 mate

Arthur [???] (82.503), previously [?]Hydraepes 1875.
3 mate Charles Orr Madge (93.570), previously [?]Isabel, Liverpool 1875.
Jnr 2 mate William Woods (96.677), previously Mabel, Liverpool, 1875.
Navigator James Moody (32.360), previously Great Eastern, 18750.
Surgeon [?]Hugo [?]Tollins (MRCS 30NOV1874), previously Great Eastern, 18750.
Carpenter  
Bosun  
Other

 
   
Notes  

Agreement and Account of Crew (Foreign-going ship):

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First two pages of the "Agreement and Account of Crew (Foreign-going ship)" for the 28 October 1875 - 08 June 1876 voyage of the cable-ship S S Hibernia, under Master Wilson Robert Cato.

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