Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Commercial Pacific Cable Company was founded in 1901, and ceased operations in October 1951. It provided the first direct
The company was established as a joint venture of three companies: the
The company used
The first section of cable was laid in 1902 by the cable ship CS Silvertown from
In 1906
In the First World War, the trans-Pacific service slowed significantly from repeated faults and the general increase in war-related traffic. Despite repeated requests by United States businesses and the Federal government, the company would not invest in improvements to increase traffic volume or speed. After the war conditions eased, but demand continued to be high and the company made repeated promises to invest in a second cable, though it never followed through on these promises. When the US entered the Second World War, the cable connection from Midway to the Philippines closed quickly after 7 December 1941 and did not reopen until the war was over.
By 1946 the cables were developing serious faults. Over a million dollars was spent on repairs, but the company was unable to maintain a viable service and stopped operating in 1951. It merged with
See also
- Celso Caesar Moreno and Li Hongzhang had tried to establish a trans-Pacific telegraph cable in the 1870s.
References
- ^ Burns, Bill. "The Commercial Pacific Cable Company". History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
External links
- The Commercial Pacific Cable Company
- The Commercial Pacific Cable Company on Midway
- 1905 Magazine Article with photos
- Completing the Transpacific Cable (September 1903 feature in Marine Engineering)
- Winkler, Jonathan Reed (2008). Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Archived from the original on 2008-05-10. Retrieved 2008-06-10.