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James Anderson (sea captain)
British captain of the SS Great Eastern / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir James Anderson (1824–1893) captained SS Great Eastern on the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 and 1866.[1]
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(The Illustrated London News)
Anderson was born in Dumfries in south west Scotland and educated at the academy there.[1]
Anderson captained Great Eastern, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, on the transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages of 1865 and 1866.[2] In 1872 he was appointed as the first managing director of the Eastern Telegraph Company.[3] This which became the largest submarine cable firm in the world.