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 Minia by Bill Glover

Cable Steamer Minia 1898
Cooks and Stewards
Image courtesy of Peter Douglass

CS MINIA

Built in 1866 by London and Glasgow Company, Glasgow.

Length 328.5 ft. Breadth 35.8 ft. Depth 25.1 ft. Gross tonnage 2,061.

Chartered for three years by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company in 1871 and converted for cable work. Sold by her owners in 1874 to the Anglo American Telegraph Company and used for cable repair duties. Leased to Western Union in 1912, remaining in service until 1922 when sold for scrap.

CABLE WORK

1871	China - Hong Kong with CS's Agnes, Kangaroo and Belgian, for the China Telegraph Co.
1873	Porthcurno - Vigo, Spain - Lisbon, Portugal with CS Africa, for Eastern Telegraph Co. Carcavelos, Portugal - Madeira, assisted CS Seine, for Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Co
1874	Jamaica - Puerto Rica with CS Kangaroo, for the West India and Panama Telegraph Co. Newfoundland shore end of 1874 Atlantic cable.

1896 Christmas card from Minia

Minia on repair duty for Western Union, 1910

See also the following articles on Minia:

The Bottom of the Ocean Is "Main Street" to Him (1925)

With A Cable Expedition (1883)

Last revised: 16 June, 2007

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