History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network
CS Nexus by Bill Glover

CS NEXUS

CS Nexus when operated by BT Marine

Built 1972 by IHC Gusto NV., Schiedam, Netherlands.

Length 150.5m, breadth 25m, depth 7.8m

Built as an offshore drilling vessel named Pelican for Offshore Europe NV. In 1985 renamed Pelican II. 1993 sold to Coe Metcalfe Shipping Ltd., Liverpool, with James Fisher & Sons as Managers. Converted by Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. to a cable ship and named CS Nexus, and chartered to BT Marine Ltd. In 1995 this charter was transferred to Cable & Wireless (Marine) Ltd., and in 1999 the charter was again transferred, this time to Global Marine Ltd.

James Fisher & Sons sold CS Nexus for scrap in April 2004.

CABLE WORK

1993	CANTAT 3
1994	SEA ME WE 3
1995	TAT 12
1997	FLAG
1998	JIH (Japanese Information Highway)
	RIOJA UK - Belgium - Netherlands - Spain


CS Nexus at Port Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Photographs © 2002, D. Moseley, UK

Last revised: 21 June, 2010

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