'Searching Fault (scene on "Great Eastern" during laying of the first Atlantic cable 1865-1867). Searching for a fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic July 31st. After Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909). In May 1865, Great Eastern steamed to Sheerness to take on wire for the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable. The cable end was lost mid-Atlantic in an accident, forcing the ship to return in 1866 with a new line. The ship's first officer, Robert Halpin, managed to locate the lost cable end and the unbroken cable made it to shore in Heart's Content, Newfoundland

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