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

CS Tycom Reliance
by Bill Glover

TYCOM CABLE SHIPS

Tycom placed orders for four new cable ships to be delivered in 2001 and 2002 with an option for a further two for delivery in 2003.

All were built to the same specifications by Keppel Hitachi Zosen, Singapore

Length 139.1 m Breadth 21.0 m Depth 7.8 m Gross tonnage 12184.

Duties cable laying, cable capacity 5000 tons.

Tycom Reliance built 2001
Tycom Responder built 2001
Tycom Resolute built 2002
Tycom Dependable built 2002
Tycom Decisive built 2003
Tycom Durable built 2003

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: billb@ftldesign.com