Name: | GREAT NORTHERN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 20/10/1892 |
Completed: | 12/1892 |
Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 314 |
Dimensions: | 3022grt, 1951nrt, 322.0 x 41.7 x 21.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (22.5, 36.75 & 61.75 x 42ins), 281nhp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 101812 |
History: | |
12/1892 | Great Northern Shipping Co Ltd (J Coull), Newcastle |
1896 | Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd (Cairns, Young & Noble), Newcastle |
1896 | Renamed CAIRNCRAG |
1904 | Managers became Cairns, Noble & Co, Newcastle |
26/07/1909 | Wrecked |
Comments: | 26/07/1909: Wrecked on Dover Island near Canso, Nova Scotia |
On a voyage from Boston to Bathurst NB in ballast |