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Deep sea submarine cable section on plinth
A section of submarine cable that is mounted on a plinth. It is believed this is a section of the earliest type of "Deep Sea" type submarine cable: St Vincent - Pernambuco.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAB0120 |
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| Collection: | Communications and signalling |
| Type: | Submarine cable |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Edinburgh (1855); Hibernia (1861) Norseman IV 1885 |
| Date made: | 1874 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | 135 mm |