A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the seabed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea.
![Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes [fr], operated by Orange Marine.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/France_Telecom_Marine_Rene_Descartes_p1150247.jpg/500px-France_Telecom_Marine_Rene_Descartes_p1150247.jpg)
Submarine cables are laid using special cable layer ships, such as the modern René Descartes [fr], operated by Orange Marine.
A telegraph stamp of the British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Co. Limited (c. 1862)
Operators in the submarine telegraph cable room at the GPO's Central Telegraph Office in London c. 1898
Landing of an Italy–USA cable (4,704 nautical miles long), on Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, January 1925
Submarine Telegraph Company
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The Submarine Telegraph Company was a British company which laid and operated submarine telegraph cables.
The first message being received from France. The telegraph instrument in the foreground is the Foy-Breguet telegraph to exchange messages with France. The instrument in the background is a Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph for onward transmission in England.
"Effect of the submarine telegraph; or peace and good-will between England and France"