History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

CS Wave Sentinel
by Bill Glover

CS WAVE SENTINEL

Length 126.4 m Breadth 21.0 m Depth 6.0 m Gross tonnage 11166

Built 1995 by Koninklijke Scheldgroep BV., Vlissingen, The Netherlands as a Ro-ro (Roll on-roll off ) ferry for Commodore Shipping Ltd., Jersey and named Island Commodore. Sold to Global Marine Systems Ltd. in 1999 for conversion into a cable ship. The work was carried out on Teesside and completed in February 2000 when the vessel was renamed Wave Sentinel.

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