Pacific Cable Station Fiji, Fanning Island, and Vancouver. A branch connected to New Zealand. Since cartographers of the day traditionally coloured member countries of the British Empire in red, the route became known as the All Red Route. Cable laying started in 1902 with two ships, Anglica and Colonia. They began laying cable from Bamfield, Vancouver Island, Canada, to Fanning Island, Suva, Norfolk Island and Southport, Queensland, Australia. Colonia, built specifically for the project, laid cable from Vancouver Island to Fanning Island in the mid-Pacific. Anglia laid cable from Southport to Norfolk Island, Fiji, New Zealand and Fanning Island. The Cable Station landfall
Cable layer “plows” that are suspended under the vessel. These plows use jets of high pressure water to bury cable 3 feet under the sea floor, which prevents fishing vessels from snagging cables as thrall their nets. HMTS "Monarch" (renamed CS "Sentinel" 13 October 1970) completed the first transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1 in 1956 from Scotland to Nova Scotia for Britain's General Post Office (GPO). Cable layer A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding