CS WESTMEATH / FRANÇOIS ARAGO
François Arago at Le Havre
Postcard dated 31 January 1906 |
Built in 1882 by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co.
Length 320.0' Breadth 42.4' Depth 19.0' Gross tonnage 3342
Owned by W.T. Henley Telegraph Works. Chartered in 1887 to La Société Française des Télégraphes Sous-Marin to lay cables in the Antilles. Sold in 1893 to La Société Industrielle des Téléphones and renamed François Arago. Sold out of the cable world in 1914 to La Compagnie Française de Marine et Commerce and renamed Peronne.
CABLE WORK AS WESTMEATH
| 1888 |
Santiago de Cuba - Guantanamo, Cuba
Guantanamo, Cuba - St Nicholas Mole, Haiti
St Nicholas Mole - Cap Haitien, Haiti
Cap Haitien - Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic |
| 1889 |
Fort de France, Martinique - Point à Pirie, Guadeloupe
Point à Pirie - St Louis, Marie Galante
Fort de France - Charlotte Amélie, St Thomas |
| 1890 |
Fort de France, Martinique - Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana |
| 1890 |
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bermuda |
| 1890 |
Trinidad - British Guiana |
| 1890 |
St Vincent - Barbados |
| 1891 |
Paramaribo - Cayenne, French Guiana - Vizen, Brazil |
| 1891 |
Mole St Nicholas - Port au Prince, Haiti |
| 1891 |
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - Fort de France, Martinique |
| 1891 |
Guadeloupe - Marie Galante: Guadeloupe - The Saints Island |
| 1892 |
Nassau, Bahamas - Jupiter, Florida |
1892 |
Marseilles - Oran |
See also this page on the survey work carried out by CS Westmeath for the 1890-91 cables.
CABLE WORK AS FRANÇOIS ARAGO
1893 |
Mon Repos, Queensland, Australia - Téoudié, New Caledonia |
| 1895 |
Madagascar - Mozambique |
1896 |
New York - Coney Island |
1896 |
Coney Island, USA - Cap Haitien, Haiti |
| 1897-8 |
Brest, France - Cape Cod, USA |
| 1898 |
Cape Cod - New York |
1901 |
Tourane, French Indo China - Amoy, China |
1905 |
Poulo Condor, French Indo China - Pontiak, Borneo, Dutch East Indies |
1905 |
Tamatave, Madagascar - St. Dennis, Reunion |
1906 |
St. Dennis, Reunion - Port Louis, Mauritius |
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