Everything about Commercial Pacific Cable Company totally explained
Commercial Pacific Cable Company was founded in
1901, and ceased operations in October,
1951. It provided the first direct
telegraph route from America to the Philippines, China, and Japan.
The company was established as a joint venture of three companies: the
Commercial Cable Company (25%), the
Great Northern Telegraph Company (25%), and the
Eastern Telegraph Company (50%). Though the Eastern (a British firm) was the majority shareholder, the CPCC was registered in the United States.
The company used
cable ships to lay its undersea cable across the
Pacific Ocean from America's west coast. The cables extended a length of 6,912 miles and the project cost approximately $12 million. Before this, messages had to travel across the
Atlantic to the
Far East via
Cape Town and the
Indian Ocean, or via
London to
Russia, then across the Russian landline to
Vladivostok, then by submarine cable to
Japan and the
Philippines.
The first section of cable was laid in
1902 by the cableship Silvertown from
Ocean Beach, adjacent to the famous
Cliff House in
San Francisco to
Honolulu. It began operating in
January 1,
1903. Later that year, cables were laid from Honolulu to
Midway, then from Midway to
Guam, and then from Guam to
Manila. The cables carried the first message to ever travel around the globe from
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on
July 4,
1903. He wished "a happy Independence Day to the U.S., its territories and properties . . ." It took nine minutes for the message to travel worldwide.
In
1906 Siemens AG made and laid the section from Guam to
Borin Island in the Japanese
archipelago. That company also connected
Manila to
Shanghai by
Silvertown.
By
1946, the cables were developing serious faults. Over one million dollars was spent on repairs, but the company was unable to maintain a viable service and stopped operating in
1951. It merged with
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
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