33093. Darling, Warren S. The French Cable Station Museum, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Lower Cape Publishing. 1988.
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33093. Darling, Warren S. The French Cable Station Museum, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Lower Cape Publishing. 1988.
- Darling, Warren S. The French Cable Station Museum, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Lower Cape Publishing. 1988. 48p. Soft wraps. This museum tour booklet provides an interesting account of the cable-laying and operating of the French underwater trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, from France to Cape Cod. This station was the American termination point for a telegraph cable that came directly to Orleans from Brest, France. It was called “Le Direct” the direct cable. It was installed in 1898 and was almost 3200 miles long. The first French Cable was installed in 1869 and landed in Duxbury Ma. Duxbury was a very busy shipping area and not suitable as a place for submarine cable and thus a lot of damage occurred from fishing and shipping operations. A new French Cable was laid in 1879 to North Eastham at Nauset Light and a two story station was built there. North Eastham was an isolated area and difficult to reach in bad weather. The current building in Orleans was built in 1891 and the equipment and men were moved to the new building in the same year. The station remained in operation until 1959 except for a few years during WWII when it was closed for security reasons. The booklet covers much of the history of the French cable and the museum. Filled with wonderful photos of the equipment and the station when in operation. (M). $9.