The CS Faraday was a cable ship built for Siemens Brothers and launched in 1874.

To minimise rolling, there were, at Froude's suggestion, enormous twin bilge keels.

[1] William's wife Anne launched the ship with the traditional smashing of a bottle of wine.

She was moved to Gibraltar in 1931 to store coal and then to become a Royal Navy storeship in Sierra Leone in 1941.

[3] A successor ship, also called Faraday, was built by Siemens Brothers in 1923, but sunk in 1941 following German bombing.