Built in 1882 by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co.
Length 320.0' Breadth 42.4' Depth 19.0' Gross tonnage 3342
Owned by W.T. Henley Telegraph Works. Chartered in 1887 to La Société Française des Télégraphes Sous-Marin to lay cables in the Antilles. Sold in 1903 to La Société Industrielle des Téléphones and renamed François Arago. Sold out of the cable world in 1914 to La Compagnie Française de Marine et Commerce and renamed Peronne.
CABLE WORK AS WESTMEATH
1888 Santiago de Cuba - Guantanamo, Cuba
Guantanamo, Cuba - St Nicholas Mole, Haiti
St Nicholas Mole - Cap Haitien, Haiti
Cap Haitien - Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
1889 Fort de France, Martinique - Point à Pirie, Guadeloupe
Point à Pirie - St Louis, Marie Galante
Fort de France - Charlotte Amélie, St Thomas
1890 Fort de France, Martinique - Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Bermuda
1891 Paramaribo - Cayenne, French Guiana
Cayenne - Vizen, Brazil
Mole St Nicholas - Port au Prince, Haiti
Fort?de?France ? Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Guadeloupe ? The Saints Island
1892 Nassau, Bahamas - Jupiter, Florida
CABLE WORK AS FRANÇOIS ARAGO
1893 Mon Repos, Bundaberg, Australia - Téoudié, New Caledonia
1895 Madagascar - Mozambique
1896 New York - Haiti
1897-8 Brest, France - Cape Cod, USA
1898 Cape Cod - New York
1901 French Indo China - China
1905 French Indo China - Borneo, Dutch East Indies
Madagascar - Reunion
1906 Reunion - Mauritius
Bermuda SG619
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