Malta and Alexandria Telegraph Co

1859 Glass, Elliot and Co received an order from the British Government to manufacture and lay a cable from Falmouth, Cornwall to Gibraltar. The government then changed the route to Rangoon to Singapore and finally to Malta to Alexandria, in Egypt.

The vessel chartered to lay the cable was the Queen Victoria. This charter was shortlived as the ship was wrecked in the English Channel. The cable was recovered and two more vessels, the Rangoon and Malacca, were chartered to carry out the task.

The Malacca started laying from Malta to Tripoli and Benghazi, with Rangoon commencing from Alexandria towards Benghazi. Both ships were involved in laying the cable into Benghazi.

1868 The cable was taken over by the Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Co.

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• Note:
  • See: Eastern Telegraph Co for fuller version.

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Sources of Information

• [1] History of the Atlantic Cables and Submarine Telegraphy