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 René Descartes by Bill Glover

CS RENE DESCARTES

Built for France Telecom, the 19th cable ship owned by them. Replacement for CS Vercors

CS René Descartes at Cape Town
CS Chamarel in background
Image courtesy of and
copyright © 2010 René Carpentier

Built 2002 by Hanjin Heavy Industries, South Korea.

Length 144.5 m Breadth 22 m Depth 7.40 m Gross tonnage 8208

Duties: Cable laying, capacity 5500 tonnes

Last revised: 11 August, 2010

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