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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