The Great Eastern Leaving Sheerness 1869 with the French Atlantic Cable
from an original engraving Illustrated London News 1869. France laid its first submarine cable across the Atlantic in 1869, from the cove of Petit Minou (about 10km west of Brest on the French mainland) to Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada), with an extension to Duxbury, Massachusetts. The cable was made and largely financed in Britain, and after some early rate competition the French company was taken over by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company in 1873.
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Location: Sheerness, UK
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