Bere Island and the Great Eastern

Cables and Links to Bere Island and the New World: The Barge and the Great Eastern

Background: The Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable / The Great Eastern

Paintings -- Metropolitan Museum of Art

1865/6?

92.10.59 The Heights over Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, Looking from Cromwell Fort: The Caroline and Boats Laying the Earth Wire.
92.10.70 Launching the Buoy from the Bow of the Great Eastern
92.10.71 The Forge on Deck, Night of August 9th: Preparing the Iron Plating for Capstan
92.10.72 Forward Deck of the Great Eastern Cleared for the First Attempt to Grapple for the Lost Cable, August 11th, 1865
92.10.83 The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern
92.10.82 Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle

1866

92.10.73 The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): 1 <<<
                Ships, the Great Eastern, H.M.S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory. 1866
92.10.74 The Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): 2 <<<
                Hasn't the Museum mistakenly labelled this?
92.10.75 Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery
92.10.76 View of the Interior of One of the Tanks on Board the Great Eastern
92.10.77 A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866
92.10.79 Arrival in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: The Cable Passed to the Paddle-box Boat of the Terrible
92.10.80 The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland
92.10.84 News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc. 1866
Article The Laying of the Atlantic Cable. The Metropolitan Museum Journal v 41 2006

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Updated: 2020.12.24     james.hanley@mcgill.ca