On board, a very precious cargo, the other end of a 2,730 nautical mile-long cable that she started spooling out on July 13 from Valentia, Ireland, on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Both the British and American governments agreed to supply additional funding for the project, and in 1857 success was nearly at hand when cable being laid by the USS Niagara snapped in heavy seas.

In the summer of 1858, HMS Agamemnon and the USS Niagara met in the middle of the Atlantic. They joined two ends of telegraph cable together, and then sailed away in opposite directions. In their ...

1858 - First trans-Atlantic cable completed by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon. 1944 - 5th Fleet carrier task forces begin air attack against Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands.

The Navy has confirmed positive COVID-19 cases aboard the submarine repair ship USS Frank Cable, but offered no numbers and sparse details on how the affected personnel were handled following the ...

1832 - USS Potomac, becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to entertain royalty, King and Queen of Sandwich Islands. 1858 - The last bit of cable is laid by USS Niagara and British ship Agamemnon to ...

However, on July 17 1858, the Royal Navy steamer vessel was laden with more than 1,000 miles of cable and sailed to the middle of the Atlantic. There she met a sister ship, the USS Niagara ...

Jim Twohig, a 75-year-old Air Force veteran from Sun City, spent three years and about 2,000 hours crafting the perfectly proportioned replica of the U.S.S. Niagara.

The decommissioned 44-year-old cargo ship USS Concord was used as target practice in ... Navy and allied ships and aircraft sunk another decommissioned cargo vessel — the USS Niagara Falls ...

PACIFIC OCEAN -- A live-fire exercise, part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2012, sank the deactivated ship USNS Niagara Falls (T-AFS-3) in waters 15,480 feet deep, 63 miles southwest of Kauai ...

Field came on board in 1854, a year after the USS Dolphin completed a 1,600-mile sounding between Newfoundland and Ireland that revealed a smooth plateau, ideal for laying cable. Field convened a ...