Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH BY W H RUSSELL, LLD ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT DUDLEY DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES DAY & SON LIMITED 6 GATE STREET LONDON R. Dudley] THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH (1865) THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH (1865) by W. H. RUSSELL NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS International Standard Book Number 0-87021-806-9 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-184620 First published in 1865 Published and Distributed in the United States of America by the Naval Institute Press Printed in Great Britain LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Weighing anchor off the Maplin Sands, Nore, July 15, 1865 ii OPPOSITE PAGE The reels of gutta-percha-covered conducting-wire conveyed into tanks at the works at Greenwich 14 Valentia in 1857-1858 at the time of the laying of the former cable 15 Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Exterior view of Telegraph House in 1857-1858 26 Telegraph House, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: Interior of messroom, 1858 27 H.M.S. Agamemnon laying the Atlantic telegraph cable in 1858: A whale crosses the line 30 Coiling the cable in the large tanks at the works at Greenwich 31 The cable passed from the works into the hulk lying in the Thames at Greenwich 38 The old frigate with her freight of cable alongside the Great Eastern at Sheerness 39 Paying-out machinery 40 Coiling the cable in the after-tank on board the Great Eastern at Sheerness: Visit of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales on May 24 41 Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, looking seawards from the point at which the cable reaches the shore 44 The cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay: Point of the landing of the shore end of cable, July 22 45 Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and boats laying the earth-wire, July 21 48 The Great Eastern under weigh, July 23: Escort and other ships introduced being the Terrible, the Sphinx, the Hawk, and the Caroline 49 Chart, showing the track of the steamship Great Eastern on her voyage from Valentia to Newfoundland 56 Splicing the cable (after the first accident) on board the Great Eastern, July 25 57