AMPERE (2)
Built 1930, Ste Provencale, La Ciotat
Length 300.4 ft Breadth 41.1ft Depth 23.7ft Gross tonnage 2434
Cable repair ship owned by the French PTT. Fitted with stern sheave on port side. Based at La Seyne sur Mer maintaining Mediterranean cables until 1939. Taken over by the Germans in 1942 and scuttled by them in Marseilles harbour in 1944
CABLE WORK
1931 Marseilles - Bizerta
1932 Marseilles - Oran
1938 Marseilles - Bizerta
1939 Marseilles - Oran
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/index.htm
Senegal 1977 80f SG631
Ampere II (cable ship)
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john sefton
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