DENTON, GRAY & COMPANY, WEST HARTLEPOOL

Name GREAT NORTHERN (launched as EUXINE)
Type Cable Ship
Yard Number 91
Launched 16/02/1870
Completed 1870
Off. Number 63584
Engine builder T. Richardson, Middleton, Hartlepool
Engine type C. 2cyl. 130HP (tripled in 1892)
GRT 1346
Length (feet) 240
Beam (feet) 32.3
First owner Denton, Gray & Co., London
History 1874 Eastern & South African Telegraph Co., Ltd., London
1876 Hoopers Telegraph Works Co., London
1878 T. S. Begbie, London [Wm. Denny, Dumbarton]
1880 Eastern & South African Telegraph Co., Ltd., London
   
Fate 05/12/1902 wrecked on Mungo Schwambi Shoal, in the entrance to Zanzibar on passage Port Victoria, Seychelles for Zanzibar with telegraph cable.

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