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 Hooper’s 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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