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R9266-175
Robert Dudley
Landing of the Atlantic Cable at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, July 27, 1866
Watercolour
R9266-175

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This cheering crowd celebrates the landing of the telegraph cable linking Europe and North America. The underwater telegraph cable was successfully run from Ireland to Newfoundland in 1866, after two previous attempts had failed. Heart’s Content operated as a cable relay station until 1965 when it became obsolete. It is now a provincial historic site where early telegraph equipment is displayed.

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See Dudley's view as reproduced in The London Illustrated News

More of Dudley's Atlantic Cable watercolours in the Winkworth Collection

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