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

CS Okinawa Maru
by Bill Glover

CS XXXCS OKINAWA MARU

Built in 1896 by Lobnitz and Company, Renfrew, Scotland

Length 307.2 ft.   Breadth 40.1 ft.  Depth 13.5 ft.  Gross tonnage 2232

All the cable equipment was supplied and fitted by Johnson and Phillips and consisted of a double combined paying out-picking up machine. Three bow sheaves and one stern sheave all 3 ft. diameter and three tanks with a capacity 27,645 cu. ft. were fitted. In service until April 1938.     

CABLE WORK

1896 Kagoshima Ohama - Amami Island - Okinawa
1896 Tamai - Misaki, Japan
1896 Jigozen - Iwaojima Island, Japan
1897 Okinawa - Ishigakijima, Japan - Danshuei, Taiwan
1897 Teshaku Tottori - Futoi - Shiohama, Japan

Cableships Index Page

Last revised: 5 October, 2015

Return to Atlantic Cable main page

Search all pages on the Atlantic Cable site:

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: [email protected]

—Bill Burns, publisher and webmaster: Atlantic-Cable.com