FRANCOIS ARAGO
Built 1882, Sunderland Ship Building Company
Length 320 ft. Breadth 42.4 ft. Depth 28 ft Gross tonnage 3342
Owned originally by W.T. Henley Telegraph Works and named CS WESTMEATH. Chartered in 1887 to La Societe des Telegraphes Sous-Marin to lay cables in the Antilles. Sold in 1892 to La Societe Industrielle des Telephones and renamed FRANCOIS ARAGO. Sold out of the cable world in 1914 to La Compagnie Francaise de Marine et Commerce and then renamed PERONNE
CABLE WORK
1892 Marseilles - Oran
1893 Australia - New Caledonia
1895 Madagascar - Mozambique
1896 New York - Haiti
1897 France - Cape Cod (USA)
1898 Cape Cod - New York
190? Madagascar - Reunion
Reunion - Mauritius
French Indo China - Borneo
French Indo China - China
"Bill Glover/Atlantic-Cable.com Website"
http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/index.htm
New Caledonia 1993 SG977
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