OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Phantom cable, The

MEDIALibrary

AUTHORSmith, Bertha Mac.

COLLECTIONHastings-Western Port Historical Society

REG NO.329

HISTORY

Bertha Mac. Smith, formerly Bertha Sproule, the daughter of one of the pioneer Flinders families,writes on her research into the history of a mysterious cable supposedly laid in 1898 as a replacement to the 1869 cable from Flinders to Tasmania.

SUBJECTS

Cables, Telecommunications equipment

KEYWORDS

Sherard Osborn (ship), Smith, Bertha Mac, Sproule, Bertha