| 1850-64 |
Frederick C. Webb: Old Cable Stories Retold |
| 1858 |
James Burn Russell Journal of the Atlantic cable expedition |
| 1858 |
Thomas
Worrall and the Atlantic cable |
| 1858 |
Richard Williamson and the 1858 Atlantic Cable |
| 1867 |
Philip Crookes and the 1867 Florida - Cuba Cable |
| 1870-74 |
James Nicol - Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company |
| 1873 |
Benjamin Powell Wilkins - CS Robert Lowe |
| 1873-1875 |
Ernest William Enfield - Cable expeditions on Great Eastern and other ships for the firm of Ford and Clark. |
| 1875-1897 |
John Seymour - CS’s Hibernia, Kangaroo, Edinburgh, Scotia, Medina, Britannia, Seine (2) |
| 1879-1900 |
Henry Ash - CS Faraday (1) |
| 1883 |
George West - cable repairs off the coast of Peru |
| 1886 |
James Graves - Superintendent, Valentia Cable Station |
| 1885-1890 |
Letters to John Clement Cuff - Electrical Engineer, Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Singapore |
| 1889-1911 |
Alf Newsome - CS Silvertown, Dacia, Mexican, Electra |
| 1890 |
Charles
Henry Baker - Central & South American Telegraph Company, Barranco,
Peru |
1890-
1936 |
Robert Langley Boyd - Eastern Telegraph Company cableship captain |
| 1892 |
Captain
Basil C. Combe - CS Silvertown, CS Omba, CS Dacia |
| 1894 |
Charles W. Banks - fire on CS Minia |
| 1895 |
Captain Samuel Trott - cable repairing on CS Minia |
| 1897 |
John Brown and CS Contre Amiral Caubet |
| 1900-13 |
James Joseph Cope - Siemens Brothers and CS Faraday (2) |
| 1902 |
Captain Christian Christenson - CS Ydun and the 1902 Mexico cable |
| 1902-37 |
Frank R. Crowther - a lifelong career at the Pacific Cable Board then All America Cables. Includes “A Submarine Cable War Tale: 1917” |
| 1902-45 |
Francis Herbert Trethewey - brief notes on his employment by the Eastern Telegraph Company from 1902 until his retirement in 1945, and his service on CS Sherard Osborn (1910-12) |
| 1903 |
Mortimer O’Connell - A brief survey of the first fifty years of the cable industry, particularly the Atlantic cables, by a telegraphist who worked at Ballinskelligs cable station from 1879 to 1915. |
| 1910-50 |
Nelson J. Perryman - “Around the World: A Career in Cables.” Cable consulting with Latimer Clark’s London-based firm followed by many years at All America Cables |
| 1912-2? |
Charles Skilliter - CS Faraday and HTMS Monarch (3) |
| 1914 |
Walter Claypoole
- Far Rockaway and Canso stations of the Commercial Cable Company |
| 1915-16 |
Alfred Lawrence Spalding and CS Levant II
- cable laying during the Gallipoli Campaign |
| 1919-55 |
Captain Harold W.M. Milne and the Eastern Telegraph Company |
| 1924 |
John S. Whaley - All
America Cables,
Santa Elena Station, Ecuador |
| 1925-85 |
Wallie Graves & Marshall Killen in An operator’s view of the early days of
the Italian trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
by Donard de Cogan |
| 1926-35 |
James Alan Bambrough - CS Dominia & CS Telconia |
| 1927-40 |
William Elmgreen - engineer on the Great Northern's cable ships in Shanghai, CS Pacific and CS Store Nordiske [external link, archive copy]. |
| 1929 |
George Browne - CS The Cable and a sweepstakes win |
| 1929-31 |
Leonard Francis Ellis - CS Dominia & CS Faraday (2) |
| 1929-35 |
Alexander Purse Murdoch - CS Faraday (2) North Atlantic cable repairs (1929) and Bass Strait cable expedition (1935) |
| 192?-45 |
Lionel Voss - CS Faraday (2), HMTS Alert (2) |
| 193?-41 |
Hugh McDonald Campbell - CS Faraday (2) |
| 1936 |
Captain
Frederick Hack - CS All America |
| 1940-49 |
Ken Smith, Cable Jointer- Life on board cable ships during the war and after |
| 1941 |
Michael Mallia and the sinking of CS Retriever (3) |
| 1941 |
James Dooley’s Violin |
| 1942 |
George
S. Watson - Remembrances of a Cable Operator |
| 1943 |
Grace Markham - The Great Northern Telegraph Company in WWII |
| 1944-45 |
Cal
Sheckler - Cable Station RM - Cal’s account of
diverting the 1926 Azores-Emden German cable into Normandy for use
by the Allied Forces after D-Day |
| 1944-45 |
Frank Foord - Protecting CS Lord Kelvin - includes details of the French Cable Wharf at Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 1944-50 |
Ernest Hunt - HMTS Monarch (3) and Alert (3) - a brief account of
his service on Monarch (3) after the shelling by American destroyers earlier in 1944 up until the sinking of Monarch by enemy action in 1945, for which he was on board. Story includes a painting by one of Ernest’s shipmates. |
| 1944-47 |
Eric Tate and the Admiralty Cable Ships |
| 1945-51 |
S.F. (Rudy) Rudolph - Cablehead RM - Rudy arrived at the station just as Cal Sheckler was leaving, and continues the story of the operation immediately after the end of the war |
| 1947 |
John Rattenbury and HMS Lasso |
| 1948/49 |
David Osborn - Plaque from the 1887 Porthcurno-Zante cable |
| 1948-53 |
Peter Edwards - CS Recorder (2) and CS Edward Wilshaw |
| 1940s-50s |
Bernard Perrault & Jean Auger - Western Union cables at Le Havre, France |
| 1940s-60s |
John Curley - Purser on HMTS Monarch (4) |
| 1950s |
Ron Woodland Sr. - HMTS Ariel |
| 1950s |
Mike Bonds - CS Mirror, Cable & Wireless |
| 1950s |
Jim Coulson - HMTS Iris 2), Alert (2), Monarch, Ocean Layer |
| 1950s |
P.T.
Joergensen - Great Northern Telegraph Company |
| 1952-59 |
Harry Parker - CS Monarch (4) |
| 1953- |
Dave Smith - Memoirs of a Cable Engineer
|
| 1954 |
Barry Waterhouse - CS Recorder (3) |
| 1957 |
Brendan Keane - CS Ocean Layer |
| 1958-89 |
Telcon - Jim Jones & Ron Fox - Cable Work at the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company (Telcon) and Standard Telephones & Cables (STC) |
| 1959 |
Ken Guy - CS Ocean Layer |
| 1959 |
Commercial Cable Company/All America Cables - The boys who went to Latin America (external link) |
| 1960s |
Gustavo Coll - River Plate cable repairs |
| 1962 |
Jack Jenkins - CS Mercury |
| 1965 |
David Howard - The Gentleman’s Game |
| 1967-82 |
David Watson - Memoirs of an STC Project Engineer
|
| 1967 |
David Howard - The Rescue of SS Lakemba |
| 1967-73 |
George Smith - CS Alert (4) |
| 1968 |
David Howard - Losing a Buoy on CS Retriever |
| 1968- |
Leo Parrish - CS Long Lines |
| 1969 |
James Barrowman - Cable & Wireless, Fiji 1969 |
| 1978 |
Jose Manuel Gil - CS Mercury |
| 1980 |
Bob Ceen - sonar surveys on CS Marcel Bayard |
| 1981 |
Karl Howard - drafting the cable route for ANZCAN |
| 2015 |
Kristian Nielsen - laying the BLAST system in American Samoa, CS Intrepid |
