Submarine Telegraph Company
Year Route Cable ship Cable manufacturer*
1851 South Foreland to Sangatte Blazer Wilkins and Weatherly/ R.S . Newall and Company
1853 Dover to Ostend William Hutt R.S . Newall and Company
1858 Cromer to Emden William Cory Glass , Elliot & Co
1859 Cromer to Heligoland William Cory
1859 Heligoland to Denmark Berwick
1859 Abbotscliff ( Capel-le-Ferne ) to Gris Nez Berwick
1859 Jersey to Pirou Resolute
1861 Beachy Head to Dieppe Glass , Elliot & Co
1865 South Foreland to Gris Nez India Rubber , Gutta Percha and Telegraph Cable Company
1866 Lowestoft to Norderney William Cory
1866 St. Margaret 's Bay to La Panne W. T. Henley
1870 Beachy Head to Cape d'Antifer W. T. Henley
1880 Jersey to Pirou
List of cables laid
The Submarine Telegraph Company was a British company which laid and operated submarine telegraph cables. Jacob and John Watkins Brett formed the English Channel Submarine Telegraph Company to lay the first submarine telegraph cable across the English Channel. An unarmoured cable with gutta-percha insulation was laid in 1850. The recently introduced gutta-percha was the first thermoplastic material available to cable makers and was resistant to seawater. This first cable was a failure and was soon broken by a fishing boat. The Bretts formed a new company, the Submarine Telegraph Company, and laid a new cable in 1851. This cable had multiple conductors and iron wire armouring. Telegraph communication with France was established for the first time in October of that year. This was the first undersea telegraph cable to be put in service anywhere in the world. The Submarine Telegraph Company continued to lay, and operate, more cables between England and the Continent until they were nationalised in 1890.