British sailors sounding and marking channels on Trinity Bay in preparation for the arrival of the "S.S. Great Eastern," July 1866, artist's impression

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Jia Ma, House Divided Project, Dickinson College

Scan date

11/10/2015

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 1, 2016.

Depicted ContentHeart's Content, Newfoundland

Depicted ContentThe new Atlantic Cable transmits and receives its first messages between North America and Europe.

Depicted ContentThe Great Eastern begins to lay cable connected to the recovered 1865 broken cable and heads for Newfoundland.

Depicted ContentThe Great Eastern, laying the new Atlantic Cable, arrives in Newfoundland and the cable is connected.

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engraving

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Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Original caption

Her Majesty's Steamer Margaretta Stevenson, sounding the harbor and placing buoys in Trinity Bay, for the safe guidance of the Great Eastern - From a sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Joseph Becker.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 18, 1866, p. 341.