First Transoceanic Telephone Cable - The British ship Monarch, world's largest cable-laying ship, takes aboard 2000 miles of cable for first transoceanic telephone line to be laid between Newfoundland and Scotland this summer. The armored cable may be seen at left at height of man's head passing over rollers and then rising as it enters ship over rail. Cable will be lowered to ocean floor over bow sheaves (center) in shallow water and stern sheaves in mid-ocean. Cable is made by Simplex Co. here. June 21, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).