"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٤‎٢‎٧] (١٢٦٢/٩٤٤)

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was replaced in November 1865 by a single-cored shore-end landed at
Bushehr, Finally, m November 1877, the cable was once more landed at
Rishehr and the telegraph office was removed to that place from
Bushehr.
In January 1877 the cable-house on Hanjam was shifted from its
original site_, at some distance inland^ and brought down to the water*'s
edge. In 18b0 the station on Hanjam^ having* become superfluous for
technical reasons through the introduction of more sensitive instru
ments; was closed on the 11th of December; and early in 1881 the
cable was replaced in the fair-way of the Gulf to the south of the island,
the ends having been during the interim directly connected in the
cable-house.
The first Persian Gulf cable having, in 1884, become unserviceable
between Jashk and Bushehr, and the second cable, that of 1869, having
at the same time shown signs of deterioration, it was resolved to replace
the former by a new cable. The material arrived at Jashk on the 13th
and 14th of November 1885 on board the steamers Dacia^ and
" International" belonging to the Company by which the cable had
been manufactured. The work of laying began from the Inter
national ; on the 15th of November 1885 under the supervision of
Sir John Bateman Champain, Birector-in-Chief, and early on the 17th
the whole of the cable carried by the (c International 33 had been sub
merged. Operations were resumed by the f ' Daciaon the afternoon
of the same day, and the final connection was made at Eishehr on the
evening of the 20th of November. The cable-laying steamers were
piloted in their course by the Indo-European Telegraph Department's
vessel Patrick Stewart " ; but, through an error in the charts, several
knots of cable were laid from the " Dacia" on the 18th of November
across a 17 fathom patch, from which they were subsequently removed
into deeper water on the 29th of March 1887.
The new Jashk-Bushehr cable was of guttapercha and cost £76,702
or about £145 a knot.
In September 1893 Gwadar was abolished as a telegraph station
and the cable was joined up at sea between Karachi and J ashk. In
October 1894 the Gwadar station was re-established, but only as an office
on the land line. In the interim telephonic connection had been main
tained for the benefit of the British Agent at Gwadar, with Ormarah and
Chahbar; but the substituted service proved unsatisfactory, and this
was the main reason for the re-opening of the telegraph office.
The inadequacy of communication between Masqat and the outside
world had more than once formed the subject of official discussions in
India; but it was reserved for Lord Curzon to take, as Viceroy, the first
practical steps for remedying the situation.
In 1879 Saiyid Turki, Sultan of Masqat^ had expressed a desire that
Ms capital should be brought into connection with India by telegraph,
and the matter was considered by the Government of India; but their
decision, in view of the expensiveness of the project and the slenderness
0 f the naval and military advantages then to be derived from it, was
adverse.
Abandon
ment of
Haniam.
1880.
Eelajing of
the cable of
1864 bet
ween Jashk
and Bushehr
in 1885.
Abandon
ment of
Gwadar as a
cable station,
1893.
The Jashk-
Masqat cable
laid, 1899-
1901.