Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Co
From Graces Guide
- 1868 John Pender gave up the Chairmanship of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co (Telcon) to enable him to set up his first submarine telegraph company, the Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Co, to link Italy, Malta and Egypt and also to be the first link in the cable to India.
- The company took over the concessions awarded to the Levant Telegraph Company and the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company which had a cable running from Sardinia to Malta and one from Malta to Corfu.
- 1870 Both these cables were duplicated. These enabled telegrams from Malta and Alexandria to be passed into the Italian and European telegraph networks and then via cross-Channel cables to England. In addition a cable laid by Glass, Elliot and Co, and owned by the British Government, running between Malta, Tripoli, Benghazi and Alexandria, was also taken over.
- Paying out for the Malta to Alexandria cable began in September 1868. A second cable was laid over this route in 1870. A number of cables were laid by Telcon in the Ionian and Aegean seas for themselves, the Greek and Turkish governments, and Anglo-Mediterranean.
- 1871 A cable was laid from Cyprus to Turkey. These were all operated by Anglo-Mediterranean and those owned by Telcon were eventually taken over by AM.
- Note:
- See: Eastern Telegraph Co for fuller version.
Sources of Information
- [1] The History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraph