CS Monarch (1945)
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HMTS Monarch, launched on 8 August 1945 and completed during February 1946, was the fourth cable ship with that name. The ship was built for the General Post Office (GPO) for the laying and repair of submarine communications cable and was the largest cable ship in the world when completed and the first cable ship to have all electric cable machinery. The ship was first engaged in repair and update of existing cables which had been neglected during the war. Monarch laid the first transatlantic telephone cable TAT-1.
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CS Monarch (1945)
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*Monarch (1945—1970)
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*Sentinel (1970—1977)
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*General Post Office
*Post Office
*Cable & Wireless Ltd.
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*Four boilers for main engines and steam auxiliaries, including two steam turbines for electrical plant.
* Cable machinery all electrically driven
*Two 100 kilowatt steam turbo-generator sets
*Two 100 kilowatt 8 cylinder diesel driven generator sets
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Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd., Neptune Yard, Walker-on-Tyne
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coiled cable in four tanks
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February 1946
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14000
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Scrapped November 1977
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1946
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1945-08-08
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* LOA
* LBP
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*Monarch
*Sentinel
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*General Post Office
*Post Office
*Cable & Wireless Ltd.
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Two triple expansion steam engines, total 4,500 h.p.
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*
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1768
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HMTS Monarch, launched on 8 August 1945 and completed during February 1946, was the fourth cable ship with that name. The ship was built for the General Post Office (GPO) for the laying and repair of submarine communications cable and was the largest cable ship in the world when completed and the first cable ship to have all electric cable machinery. The ship was first engaged in repair and update of existing cables which had been neglected during the war. Monarch laid the first transatlantic telephone cable TAT-1. In 1969 When the GPO became a public corporation, the Post Office, the designation "Her Majesty's Telegraph Ship" (H.M.T.S.) became the more conventional, commercial designation "Cable Ship" (CS). In 1970 the ship was sold to Cable & Wireless and renamed Sentinel.
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20652
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1945-08-08
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Scrapped November 1977
