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

Cableship Stamps
Thanks to Bill Glover for providing the stamp images and text for these pages. 44 cableships on 93 stamps are illustrated and described, with details of cables laid.
Cableships A	Agamemnon, Alert, Alsace, Ampere (2), Ampere (3), Anglia, Stanley Angwin, Francois Arago, Ariel
Cableships BC	Baudot, Bayard, Cable Enterprise, Cable Venture, Cambria, Chantik, Colonia, Cory
Cableships D-G	Dacia, Denison Pender, Dominia, Earp, Faraday (2), Flexservice, Goliath, Great Eastern
Cableships I-R	Iris, KDD Maru, Mercury, Mirror (2), Monarch (4), Pacific Guardian, Patrol, Recorder (3), Retriever (5)
Cableships S-W	Salernum, Scotia, Seine, Sentinel, Sharp, Stephan, Thevenin, Vercors, Ward, Westmeath

Many additional stamps are shown on the pages linked from the Stamps Index page

Last revised: 12 March, 2013

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