3-017-189 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition: the first buoy, marking the supposed place where the cable was grappled, Aug. 3, 1865. 'Our Special Artist has furnished sketches of the two buoys, one launched on the 4th, and the other on the 8th of August... These two buoys are about ten miles apart...[The first buoy] (that most deeply sunk in the water) is moored with nearly two miles and one third of the electric telegraph cable attached to the "mushroom anchor," and marks, as nearly as could be calculated, the spot where the Atlantic cable broke and sank on the 2nd of August. This buoy was lowered in lat. 51 deg. 28 min., long. 38 deg. 42 min...on the 4th of August; and it bears at the top, in white letters, the word "Telegraph. No. 5."...The flag of the first buoy is scarlet, and the ball is under the flag'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.