NEW Henry Charles Forde 1894 superintended cable telegraph from Singapore to Hong Kong

In his introduction to the article 1871 Singapore – Hong Kong Cable on his website, History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications, linked below, Bill Burns writes:-

The China Submarine Telegraph Company was set up by John Pender in 1869 to link Hong Kong into his growing network of cable companies. Telcon manufactured the cable and used CS Agnes, Kangaroo, Belgian and Minia to lay it from Singapore-Cochin China-Hong Kong. The work took place in 1871; the information below is from trade papers of the time. Cochin China was the name at the time for the southern third of Vietnam; the cable landed at Saigon.

In 1873 the China Submarine Telegraph Company, the British Australian Telegraph Company, and the British-Indian Extension Company merged to form the Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Company.

Further mergers over the next 60 years eventually resulted in the formation of Imperial & International Communications Ltd., which in 1934 changed its name to Cable & Wireless Ltd. The full story of these companies may be found on the Cable and Wireless page.

In 1901 CS Sherard Osborn picked up a section of the 1871 cable, and the images of the recovered cable on this page, shown next to the period descriptions of the cable construction, are courtesy of David Warwick. Bill Burns

See Bill Burns email on Forde.In

HF: 1894 Henry Charles Forde superintended the laying of the cable from Singapore to Labuan (Borneo) and Hong Kong, a distance of 1,972 nautical miles. Forde was a Civil Engineer and Telegraph engineer. Bill Burns has kindly sent this link of an obituary of Forde  published in 1897 …..

SEE:https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DTN18940508.2.11

In 1894 Mr. Forde superintended the laying of the cable from Singapore to Labuan (Borneo) and Hong Kong, a distance of 1,972 nautical miles. This obituary was published in the 1897 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries:

Henry Charles Forde,fifth son of the late Mr. Thomas Arthur Forde.