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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
CS / HMS / CS Emile Baudot |
CS / HMS / CS EMILE BAUDOT Built 1917 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd Length 222.5 ft Breadth 32.2 ft Depth 19.2 ft Gross tonnage 1049
First cable repair ship owned by the French PTT and based at Le Havre for maintaining French coastal and Anglo-French cables. Taken over by the Royal Navy during WW2 and used for harbour defence work. Returned to the French PTT in 1945. Then based at Brest maintaining Anglo-French and French Atlantic cables. Sold for scrap in 1962 CABLE WORK
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Last revised: 16 February, 2013 |
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