History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
CS Westmeath/François Arago by Bill Glover

CS WESTMEATH / FRANÇOIS ARAGO

François Arago at Le Havre
Postcard dated 31 January 1906

Built in 1882 by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co.

Length 320.0' Breadth 42.4' Depth 19.0' Gross tonnage 3342

Owned by W.T. Henley Telegraph Works. Chartered in 1887 to La Société Française des Télégraphes Sous-Marin to lay cables in the Antilles. Sold in 1903 to La Société Industrielle des Téléphones and renamed François Arago. Sold out of the cable world in 1914 to La Compagnie Française de Marine et Commerce and renamed Peronne.

CABLE WORK AS WESTMEATH

1888	Santiago de Cuba - Guantanamo, Cuba Guantanamo, Cuba - St Nicholas Mole, Haiti St Nicholas Mole - Cap Haitien, Haiti Cap Haitien - Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
1889	Fort de France, Martinique - Point à Pirie, Guadeloupe Point à Pirie - St Louis, Marie Galante Fort de France - Charlotte Amélie, St Thomas
1890	Fort de France, Martinique - Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bermuda
1891	Paramaribo - Cayenne, French Guiana Cayenne - Vizen, Brazil Mole St Nicholas - Port au Prince, Haiti Fort‑de‑France ‑ Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Guadeloupe ‑ The Saints Island
1892	Nassau, Bahamas - Jupiter, Florida

See also this page on the survey work carried out by CS Westmeath for the 1890-91 cables.

CABLE WORK AS FRANÇOIS ARAGO

1893	Mon Repos, Bundaberg, Australia - Téoudié, New Caledonia
1895	Madagascar - Mozambique
1896	New York - Haiti
1897-8	Brest, France - Cape Cod, USA
1898	Cape Cod - New York
1901	French Indo China - China
1905	French Indo China - Borneo, Dutch East Indies Madagascar - Reunion
1906	Reunion - Mauritius

Last revised: 17 April, 2008

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