The second cable was laid in 1865 with much-improved material. The cable was laid with the ship SS "Great Eastern", built by John Scott Russell and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and skippered by Sir James Anderson. More than halfway across, the cable broke and after many rescue attempts, they had to give up. In July 1866 a third cable was again laid from The Anglo-American Cable house on the Telegraph Field, Foilhomurrum. On 13th July the "Great Eastern" steamed westward to Heart's Content, Newfoundland, and two weeks later on July 27th 1866 the successful connection was put into service. The 1865 cable was also retrieved and spliced so two cables were in service. These cables proved more durable. Line speed was very good and the sound bite ‘two weeks to two minutes’ occurred from 1866. This cable altered for all time personal, commercial and political relations between people across the Atlantic. Since 1866 there has been a permanent cable connection between the continents.