Agamemnon Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable in 1858: a Whale Crosses the Line. After Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909). In 1857, the British government fitted out Agamemnon to carry 1,250 tons of telegraphic cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company's first attempt to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable. Although this initial cable attempt was unsuccessful, the project was resumed the following year and Agamemnon and her counterpart, USS Niagara, successfully joined the ends of their two sections of cable on 29th July 1858.

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