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SS Great Eastern, cable-laying ship

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Date: 1857-1874
Functions, occupations and activities: Ships > Cable-laying ships
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C73142 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O52433 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
c1866-1870: signal log and copy log books (3), plus crew list and photographs (1866-67, 1870)
Cable & Wireless Archive
2052, 2047, 2062/2, 332-3
NRA 21652
2
1857-1874: diaries, storebook, etc
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
TCM/16
NRA 36131 Telegraph
3
1869-1870: medical log
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
LOG/M/17
4
1873: logbook kept by Robert Halpin, commander on a cable-laying voyage to Newfoundland and back
National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
LOG/M/37