Cable Wireless Ltd News Today

Monarch To Lay Atlantic Cable In less than a fortnight, HM Telegraph Ship Monarch, chartered to Cable & Wireless Ltd. by the GPO, will sail to lay the CANTAT cable across the Atlantic. The 8,000-ton cable layer is now at Greenwich on the Thames, loading and preparing for her task. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 29th 1961. The story continued: CANTAT,designed to be the first section of the Commonwealth round-the-world telephone cable, will provide 60...