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 Robert Lowe by Bill Glover

CS ROBERT LOWE

Built in 1870 by Palmers S.B. and Ironworks, Newcastle upon Tyne

Length 201.7 ft. Breadth 29.3 ft. Depth 16.8 ft. Gross tonnage 832

Jointly owned by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company and the French Atlantic Telegraph Company. Fitted with two tanks with a total capacity of 13,905 cu. ft. A single combined paying out-picking up machine was fitted on the upper deck. In service until wrecked in 1873 off the Newfoundland coast.

CABLE REPAIRS

1870	1866 Atlantic cable repairs

Captain W. Welch:
1872	St. Pierre - Duxbury (laid 1869)

CABLE WORK

1873	Valentia, Ireland - Hearts Content, Newfoundland

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Last revised: 3 November, 2015

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