Telconia
ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Telconia
- IMO number
- 1125780
- MMSI
- —
- Call sign
- —
- Flag
- —
- Vessel type
- ship
- Gross tonnage
- 1,013
- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- —
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1909
- Builder
- Swan Hunter
- Registered owner
- —
- Operator
- —
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Telconia
CS Telconia was a British cable ship used in the early 20th century to lay and repair submarine communications cables. She was built in 1909 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (a subsidiary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company) and remained in service until late 1934. Telconia is often incorrectly credited with playing a role in cutting German cables in August 1914. In her book The Zimmermann Telegram, American historian Barbara Tuchman incorrectly asserted this based on an interview with a retired Royal Navy officer decades later. Scholars have since determined that in fact it was the British General Post Office ship CS Alert that carried out these attacks. The job of Alert was to locate and cut the five German cables heading into the Atlantic. A similar operation cut the German cables that connected Great Britain to the German coast.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Telconia now?
- Telconia has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Telconia?
- Telconia is a ship, built in 1909 by Swan Hunter. The vessel has a gross tonnage of 1,013.
- Has Telconia been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Telconia appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).