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EMILE BAUDOT
Malagasy Republic 1976 200f
Built 1917, Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Length 222.5 ft Breadth 32.2 ft Depth 19.2 ft Gross tonnage 1049
First cable repair ship owned by the French PTT and based at Le Havre for maintaining French coastal and Anglo French cables. During WW2 manned by Royal Navy personnel and used for harbour defence work. Returned to the French PTT in 1945. Then based at Brest maintaining Anglo French cables and French Atlantic cables. Sold for scrap in 1962
CABLE WORK
1957 France - Algeria
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Malagasy SG360

Built as a cable ship under yard No 1030 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Low Walker, Newcastle for French Government-Postes & Télégraphes, La Seyne, France.
23 April 1917 launched as the ÉMILE BAUDOT.
Tonnage 1,152 gross, 441 net, dim.222.6 x 32.2 x 19.2ft.
One 6-cyl. triple expansion steamengine, manufactured by shipbuilder, 107 nhp, twin screws, speed?.
September 1917 completed.

She was the first cable repair ship owned by the French PTT and based at Le Havre.
Used for maintaining French coastal and Anglo French cables.
September 1939 French Navy auxiliary, under pendant No X 83.
03 June 1940 seized at Plymouth.
In service and crewed by the Royal Navy personnel from September 1940 until 1945 as cable ship.
1943 Was she used in the Indian Ocean, laid a cable between Ceylon and India in 1943.
1945 Handed back to the French PTT in Gibraltar.
Based then at Brest for maintaining of the Anglo French cables and French Atlantic cables.

1957 Laid the cable between France and Algeria.
1962 Sold for scrap and broken up by Soc. Aprosider in Courseulles, scrapping commenced in March 1962.

Source: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/stamps/Ca ... ndexbc.htm http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Register of Merchant ships completed in 1917. Lloyds Register.