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 Anglia by Bill Glover

CS ANGLIA

Built in 1898 by Vickers Ltd, Barrow in Furness

Length 467 ft. Breadth 54.25 ft. Depth 27 ft. Gross tonnage 6514

Built for the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company as a cable layer with four cable tanks with the following capacities. No 1 tank 35,159 cubic feet; No 2 tank 36,133 cubic feet; No 3 tank 26,164 cubic feet; No 4 tank 23,250 cubic feet.

A double paying out-picking up machine was fitted on the main deck forward of the No 1 tank hatch and a single paying out machine fitted aft. Two bow sheaves and one stern sheave, all 3 ft 6 in. in dia were fitted.

Sold in 1906 to T.W. Tamplin & Company for commercial trading, retaining its name. In 1907 sold to Archibald Curries & Co., Melbourne and renamed Itonus. The British India Line acquired Curries in 1913. Torpedoed and sunk on 16 December 1916, by U38, 70 miles off Malta while on a voyage from Marseilles, France to Sydney, Australia.

CABLE WORK

Captain W.R. Cato:
1899	Gibraltar - Malta - Alexandria, Egypt Cape Town - Robben Island, South Africa - St Helena
1900	Ascension - St Vincent, Cape Verde IslandsGreetsiel - Borkum, Germany - Fayal, Azores Fayal, Azores - New York, USA
1901	St Vincent, Cape Verde Islands - Madeira Porthcurno, England - Madeira Ascension - Sierra Leone Durban - Mauritius
Captain F.H. Price:
1901	Mauritius - Rodriguez Is Rodriguez Is - Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Captain J.E. Leach:
1902	Bamfield - Fanning Island Fanning Island - Suva, Fiji Suva, Fiji - Anson Bay, Norfolk Island Anson Bay, Norfolk Island - Southport, Australia Anson Bay, Norfolk Island - Doubtless Bay, New Zealand
1903	Manila, Philippines - Guam Midway - Honolulu, Hawaii

CABLE REPAIRS

Captain W.R. Cato:
1899	Repairs to Alexandria - Port Said cable
1901	Repairs to St. Vincent - Pernambuco cable

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Last revised: 7 February, 2019

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