Edward Wilshaw

Sir Edward Wilshaw (3 June 1879 – 3 March 1968)[1] was a British businessman, the chairman of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1936 to 1947.

During World War II, Wilshaw employed his friend John Logie Baird to work on developing high-speed facsimile transmission.

Driver, DFM, an RAF officer who had earlier gained fame, in 1939, as one of the first Allied airmen to be decorated in the Second World War.

[1] In 1949, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. built a 313 feet (95 m)/2,522 long tons (2,562 t) cable ship named the CS Edward Wilshaw, the largest cable repair ship when launched in the C&W fleet.

Completed at a cost of £300,000 and with a cable capacity of 18,850 square feet (1,751 m2), she was based in: Mombasa during the 1950s; Gibraltar from 1965-70; and the Pacific Ocean from Madang, Papua New Guinea from 1970 to 1979, the year in which she was scrapped at Vigo Spain.