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A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content

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The Great Eastern completed a cable from Foilhommerum Bay on Valentia Island to Heart's Content in Newfoundland, and it worked. The ship then returned to the position where the 1865 cable had been lost, grappled it from a seabed some kilometres deep, spliced it and completed it to the same village — so that two working cables ran between Ireland and Newfoundland within weeks of each other. The recovery is the first demonstration of the operation on which the entire repair industry still depends: finding a cable on the bottom by dragging for it, bringing an end aboard and splicing.

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  1. Story
  2. The Great Eastern completed a cable from Foilhommerum Bay on Valentia Island to Heart's Content in Newfoundland, and it worked. The ship then returned to the position where the 1865 cable had been lost, grappled it from a seabed some kilometres deep, spliced it and completed it to the same village — so that two working cables ran between Ireland and Newfoundland within weeks of each other. The recovery is the first demonstration of the operation on which the entire repair industry still depends: finding a cable on the bottom by dragging for it, bringing an end aboard and splicing.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Locating and repairing a cable fault
  5. The Valentia Island cable station
  6. The Heart's Content cable station
  7. Cyrus West Field
  8. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  9. Connections
  10. The Heart's Content cable station
  11. The Valentia Island cable station
  12. Cyrus West Field
  13. Locating and repairing a cable fault
  14. The cable landing station
  15. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  16. The cable landing station
  17. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
  18. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
  19. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  20. The 1858 Atlantic telegraph cable
  21. The first Atlantic telegraph cable is completed
  22. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  23. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
  24. The cable ship
  25. Redundancy and restoration in the cable network
  26. A permanent Atlantic cable lands at Heart's Content
  27. Eleven cable ships repair the Luzon Strait cables
  28. Both cables to the Matsu Islands are cut within six days
  29. Evidence
  30. Supports the 1858 cable dates (completion 5 August, first test signals 10 August, first official message 16 August, failure 18 September), the message counts of the working period, the 1866 landing at Heart's Content and the recovery of the 1865 cable, and Cyrus Field's organising role. V55 verification basis: retrieved by search, not opened. This is a specialist enthusiast-maintained archive rather than an institutional one; it is the standard working reference for this subject and reproduces primary material, but a curator should replace it with institutional citations before publication.
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