Dacia
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:51 pm
Cable ship built 1867 Laing, Sunderland for Norwood & Co. 1856Gt 1473nt. L283’. B34’7” Dr17’9”. Compound engine 4-cyl 207hp. Purchased 1870 by India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Ltd, London for conversion into cable laying ship. Cut in two, lengthened by 40’. Tanks capable of holding 1500tn cable were built in. Cable laying machinery built by Easton & Anderson consisted of single paying out machine aft and duplex machine with 50hp steam engine forward. Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine whilst, off Funchal while engaged in diverting the German South American cable for the benefit of the French.
CABLE WORK 1870 Batabano - Cienfuegos - Santiago da Cuba (Cuba) - Kingston 1871 San Juan, Puerto Rica - St Thomas - St Kitts - Antigua - Guadeloupe - Dominica - Martinique - St Lucia - St Vincent - Barbados - Grenada - Trinidad - British Guiana Marseilles - Algiers 1872 Kingston - San Juan England - Spain 1873 Kingston - Colon, Panama 1874 France - Spain 1875 Chile - Peru 1879 Marseilles - Algiers 1880 Marseilles - Algiers 1881 Galveston - Vera Cruz 1882 Galveston, Texas - Coatzacoalcos - Vera Cruz, Mexico 1883 Dakar - Tenerife, Canaries Cadiz, Spain - Las Palmas, Canaries Confital - Regla, Canaries Garachio - Santa Cruz la Palma, Canaries
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/index.htm
and other sites.
Jamaica SG320/321.
CABLE WORK 1870 Batabano - Cienfuegos - Santiago da Cuba (Cuba) - Kingston 1871 San Juan, Puerto Rica - St Thomas - St Kitts - Antigua - Guadeloupe - Dominica - Martinique - St Lucia - St Vincent - Barbados - Grenada - Trinidad - British Guiana Marseilles - Algiers 1872 Kingston - San Juan England - Spain 1873 Kingston - Colon, Panama 1874 France - Spain 1875 Chile - Peru 1879 Marseilles - Algiers 1880 Marseilles - Algiers 1881 Galveston - Vera Cruz 1882 Galveston, Texas - Coatzacoalcos - Vera Cruz, Mexico 1883 Dakar - Tenerife, Canaries Cadiz, Spain - Las Palmas, Canaries Confital - Regla, Canaries Garachio - Santa Cruz la Palma, Canaries
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/index.htm
and other sites.
Jamaica SG320/321.