MALTA, LIKE GIBRALTAR, Suez and Aden, was a key point on the telegraph cable system linking England with its Empire to the East which was completed in 1870. As submarine cables on the route from England through the Mediterranean and Red Sea to India were duplicated and then triplicated, it became an important station.
During the Second World War, the Italians cut all five cables between Gibraltar and Malta. Cable & Wireless operations in Malta closed in 1975.
Staff at work in the Cable & Wireless emergency sub-station, cut out of solid rock to ensure secure handling of Army, Navy and RAF traffic during World War II. Left to right: Mr O. Wirth, Mr J. Agius, Mr V.D. Satariano, Mr J.A. Bonnici and Mr G.F. Huggins, December 1944.
C.S. Lady Denison- Pender at Malta, February 1950.
