North Atlantic Telegraph Co
1860 The steam yacht Fox left Southampton for the purpose of ascertaining the best places for landing the submarine (cable) for the North Atlantic Telegraph.[1]
Joseph Rodney Croskey was commander of the North Atlantic Telegraph expedition which surveyed a Northern route for a telegraph cable.[2]
1861 At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Leopold M'Clintock read a paper on the surveys of her Majesty's ship Bulldog of the deep seas on the route of the projected North Atlantic Telegraph.[3]
1861 "The Danish Concession, upon which the project of the North Atlantic Telegraph is founded, is about to pass into new hands for the establishment of a working company for laying down the cables."[4]
1866 The North Atlantic Telegraph Company was founded to establish a means of telegraphic communication between the Northern part of Europe and America, via Iceland and Greenland
Once the British Atlantic Cable had been laid, this (Danish) Atlantic Cable was not proceeded with.
1867 The company was voluntarily wound up[5]