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  • Title
    Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables
  • Reference
    MS/0462/1
  • Production date
    1883 - 1886
  • Creator
    • Lucas, Francis RobertBiography
  • Scope and Content
    Covers repairs to the Brazilian cable (St. Vincent-Pernambuco section) 1883; laying the duplicate Madeira-St. Vincent cable 1884, the direct Spanish cable (Lizard-Bilbao) 1884, the St. Vincent-Pernambuco cable 1884 (and repairs to No.1 Madeira-St. Vincent section), the Zanzibar-Mozambique duplicate cable 1885, and the African direct cable (Bathurst-Bonny) 1886 (for which a printed programme re laying is included). Details include journals of voyages of cable ships and abstracts of Engineer's log, copy telegrams, correspondence and reports to Admiral Richards.
  • Extent
    1 volume
  • Physical description
    Modern bound manuscript.
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    FILE
  • Repository name
    Science Museum, London
  • Conditions governing access
    Open Access
  • Conditions governing Reproduction
    Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions
  • System of arrangement
    MS/0461-MS/0464 are all part of 1984-1432