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Atlantic Telegraph Company
Canning, Samuel
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Lord-Macquitty Collection
Russell, William Howard
Seamen, Registrar General Of Shipping And
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company Ltd
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Mounted pictures by Robert Dudley (Manuscript)
1865
CLF/10/1
Registrar General Of Shipping And Seamen, Agreements, Crew Lists And Official Logs (Manuscript)
1865
RSS/CL/1865/1307
Miscellaneous TITANIC publications (Manuscript)
1991
LMQ/7/14/6
Diary of Wireless
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1914-1918
JOD/264/1
Newspapers And Playbills - Documents (Manuscript)
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Diary kept by James Ford during submarine cable laying voyages, 1866-1868. (Manuscript)
1866-1975
JOD/227
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