Specific details about the Tasmania-Victoria telegraph cables are organised into the following categories:
- Planning for the 1859 cable;
- The 1859 cable;
the King Island problems;
nature of and responsibility for the breaks in the 1859 cable;
the proposal to lease the cable;
- Subsequent cables;
- Cable operation and management;
- Telegraphic stationery - transmission and delivery forms;
- Strategies to deliver telegrams during interruptions;
- Cable rates;
- Cable ships - the H.M.C.S. Victoria and the Omeo.
- Selected background Reports about planning and constructing the cables across Bass Strait
and many subsequent details are provided elsewhere - see the list of Reports included in this site.