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Description: | [Album, compiled and written, documenting the laying of two submarine cables/ F.R. Lucas. 1897-1898. Volume covers Bermuda-Turks Island-Jamaica cable 1897-8, including press cuttings, details of officers, crew and cable staff of cable ship Scotia, of loading of Scotia and journal of its voyage, abstract of Engineer's log, phtos (21), copy telegrams and correspondence etc; and Porthcurno-Gibraltar cable 1898, including printed programme re laying, details of officers, crew and cable staff of Scotia, of loading of Scotia and journal of its voyage, abstract of Engineer's log, photos (15), copy telegrams and correspondence and report to Shuster etc. Lucas was the Engineer to the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co. Ltd.; Shuster was managing director] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | album | Temporal: | 1897-1898 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Lucas, F.R. | Identifier: | 1984-1432/9 | Go to resource |
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