History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
CS Anglia
by Bill Glover
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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
CS Anglia |
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CS ANGLIA
Built in 1898 by Vickers Ltd, Barrow in Furness Length 467 ft. Breadth 54.25 ft. Depth 27 ft. Gross tonnage 6514 Built for the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company as a cable layer with four cable tanks with the following capacities. No 1 tank 35,159 cubic feet; No 2 tank 36,133 cubic feet; No 3 tank 26,164 cubic feet; No 4 tank 23,250 cubic feet. A double paying out-picking up machine was fitted on the main deck forward of the No 1 tank hatch and a single paying out machine fitted aft. Two bow sheaves and one stern sheave, all 3 ft 6 in. in dia were fitted. Sold in 1906 to T.W. Tamplin & Company for commercial trading and renamed Itonus. Torpedoed and sunk on 16 December 1916, by U38, 70 miles off Malta while on a voyage from Marseilles, France to Sydney, Australia CABLE WORK
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Last revised: 23 September, 2011 |
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