3-028-684 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Mediterranean Telegraph: landing the cable at Porthcurnew Bay, Cornwall, 1870. 'The successful completion of the submarine telegraph line between Malta, Gibraltar, and Falmouth, in connection with the Anglo-Mediterranean and the British Indian submarine telegraphs, to form a direct submarine communication all the way from India to England, crossing only the land of Egypt, has been announced, to the public satisfaction...Porthcurnew Bay...was the landing-place of the Mid-Channel telegraph cable, which communicates with the signal-ship Brisk, moored half way between the shores of Cornwall and Brittany, to give information of vessels entering or departing from the British Channel. There is here a picturesque gorge, or deep valley, declining abruptly towards the sea between the bluff hills, which are crested with granite boulders, or tors...The promontory of Treryn Dinas, or Treryn Castle, as it is sometimes called...is seen in our view...The screw steam-ship in this little bay, from which the shore-end cable is being landed by means of the boats, is the Investigator. The Scanderia, with the Hibernia and the Edinburgh, had brought the main cable across the Bay of Biscay'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.