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HMTS Monarch, launched on 8 August 1945 and completed during February 1946, was the fourth cable ship with that name. The ship was built for the General Post Office (GPO) for the laying and repair of submarine communications cable and was the largest cable ship in the world when completed and the first cable ship to have all electric cable machinery.
The GPO took over operation of the ship and renamed it Alert. [10] In 1902, Alert laid the St. Margaret's Bay, England – La Panne, Belgium 2-telephone cable manufactured by Siemens. [11] In 1912, she laid the Abbotscliffe, England – Cap Gris Nez, France 4-telephone cable. [12] This was the first continuously loaded cable installed by the ...
The UK's long-range maritime service commenced from a site at Morgan's Hill, Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1920.In 1925, a remote receiving centre at Highbridge, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, was opened, and in 1928 a transmitting station was opened at Portishead, from which the name "Portishead Radio" was derived.
The Corps of Colonial Marines were two different Royal Marine units raised from former black slaves for service in the Americas at the behest of Alexander Cochrane. [1] The units were created at two separate periods: 1808-1810 during the Napoleonic Wars; and then again during the War of 1812; both units being disbanded once the military threat had passed.
CS Pierre de Fermat (2014) Used by Orange UK, the vessel was the first new ship built by Orange Marine, since the CS Raymond Croze was launched in 1983 for cable laying. [ 14 ] CS MV Lida (Still operating in 2022) South Africa's Mertech Marine owns this cable retrieval ship as of 2022 and planned a retirement of the vessel with an unforeseen ...
Marine Detachment aboard USS Augusta in the 1930s. A Marine Detachment, or MarDet, was a unit of 35 to 85 United States Marines aboard large warships including cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. They were a regular component of a ship's company from the formation of the United States Marine Corps until 1998. [1]
A year after her three-year lease to the Military Sealift Command, American President Lines transferred the ship permanently to the MARAD in April, 1988. [3] She was then renamed SS Cape Girardeau, and designated T-AK 2039. As a MARAD ship, Cape Girardeau was homeported in Alameda, CA as part of the Ready Reserve Force.
The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a ...