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 Cable Innovator by Bill Glover

CS CABLE INNOVATOR

CS Cable Innovator at sea

Built 1995 by Kvaerner Masa Yards, Turku, Finland

Length 145 m Breadth 24 m Depth 8.5 m GT 14277

Built as the flagship of Cable & Wireless (Marine) Ltd. Transferred to Global Marine along with the rest of the C&W fleet. Carries up to 8000 tons of cable.

CS Cable Innovator data sheet at Global Marine (July 2021)

Compare these recent photographs with the ones at the bottom of the page from ten or more years ago.

Below: CS Cable Innovator at Ogden Point, Victoria BC, Canada.
Images courtesy of and copyright © Peter Spalding, June 2022

Below: CS Cable Innovator at Ogden Point, Victoria BC, Canada.
Images courtesy of and copyright © Lesley Lewis, July 2021

CABLE WORK

1996	Asia Pacific Cable (APC): Taiwan - Hong Kong - Singapore - Indonesia - Malaysia - Thailand - Philippines
1996-7	Indonesia - Australia
1997-8	FLAG: Palermo, Sicily - Mara, Japan
1998	PAN AMERICAS: Chile - Ecuador - Panama - Colombia - Venezuela - Aruba - St. Croix - St. Thomas
1998-9	JIH: Japan Information Highway
1999	SOUTHERN CROSS: Australia - New Zealand - Hawaii
2000	Japan-USA (Laid 5000 km)
2001	TAT 14: USA - Denmark - Germany - Holland - France - England - USA
2001	CHINA-USA: USA - Guam - Okinawa - China - Taiwan - China - Korea
2001	Japan-USA (Laid and buried 880 km armoured cable)
2001	EAST ASIA CROSSING: Hong Kong - Taiwan - Korea - Japan - Taiwan - Hong Kong
2004	Norway - Svalbard. (2 cables)
2005	Grand Bahama - Bimini
2008	TPE: USA - China - Taiwan - South Korea
2009	JAKABARE: Java - Kalimantan - Batam Island, Indonesia - Singapore
2009	I-ME-WE Section 1: India - Yemen - Saudi Arabia: Pakistan, Fujairah, UAE

Below: CS Cable Innovator in Portland Harbour, Dorset, UK.

Photograph shows the 4m diameter stern sheaves; bow sheaves are not fitted.
The 'A' frame used for launching ROVs can also be seen.

Photograph bows view © Bill Glover, UK

Last revised: 12 June, 2022

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