Mackay-Bennett, in service from 1884 until 1922, and best known for recovering the bodies of the victims of the RMS Titanic disaster in 1912 CS Alert (1890), cut important German cables in World War I CS Cambria (1905), sank in Montevideo harbour, Uruguay, in 1945 CS Faraday (1923) CS Telconia, in service from 1910 until 1934 CS Monarch (1945) CS Long Lines (1964) Royal Navy , fifth-rate frigate used in 1845 as a cable ship , 91-gun steam line-of-battle ship used as a cable ship in 1857 as part of the effort to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable , composite gunboat used briefly as a cable ship in 1915 , coast guard vessel used as a cable ship in 1917 US Navy 1951-1959 1973-1992 1973-1985 USS Thor (ARC-4) 3 January 1956 to 2 July 1973 USS Yamacraw (ARC-5) 1959-1965 USNS Albert J. Myer (T-ARC-6) 1963-1994 1984–present, only ship in class See also List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy § Cable Repair Ships (ARC) List of ships of the United States Army § Cable laying ships List of international submarine communications cables Optical fiber Submarine communications cable Submarine power cable Pipe-laying ship References External links International Cable Protection Committee - Cableships of the World Photos of commercial cable layers C.S. Long Lines History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications The World's Submarine Telephone Systems (Extensive glossary, review of systems with discussion of ship equipment) South American Cables 1891-1892 Example of detailed description of cable and cable laying late 19th century. "Laying the New Ocean Cable" (Popular Science Dec. 1928, CS Dominia) "Cable Laying Ship Is Floating Wonderland" (Popular Mechanics July 1932) United States Army Signal Corps Scrapbook Related to U.S. cable ship Burnside at Dartmouth College Library Ship types Submarine communications cables