Read about Rowett’s career and the early days of under-sea cables here… https://atlantic-cable.com/CablePioneers/Rowett/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3XgJyEfg8v2Z-Nsrw__kFl-xH3fB9ZVy-lgNRthojuQ77sGo7WKH4LIBE
Undersea telephone cable pioneer Captain William Rowett, 1806-75
Hope you have visited the museum at Porthcurno. Very interesting. And the slightly hush-hush site on the cliffs above Bude where the transatlantic cables are intercepted (sorry I mean come ashore)