History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
From the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

Built in 1882 by London and Glasgow Company

Length 200.2 ft Breadth 29.0 ft Depth 13.8 ft Gross tonnage 502

Built for the Eastern Telegraph Company for work in the Greek Islands. Johnson and Phillips supplied the cable machinery. Fitted with three cable tanks and twin bow sheaves. Wrecked in the Bay of Panormos on 18 April 1887 with the loss of twelve crew.

After the loss of Volta a lighthouse was built at Armenistis in 1890. Aris Bilalis, who has been conducting research to find the wreck of Volta, sends these photographs of the lighthouse light chamber, now at the Maritime Museum at Mykonos, and the commemorative plaque.

ARMENISTIS 1890

The machinery of the lighthouse was designed by “Sauter Lemonier” and was exhibited at the Paris International Expo where it received prizes and was then placed in Armenistis lighthouse in 1890 and operated until 1983.

This lighthouse is considered one of Aegean’s largest.