History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications |
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CS Great Northern |
CS GREAT NORTHERN Built in 1870 by Denton Gray and Company, West Hartlepool Length 240.0 ft Breadth 32.3 ft Depth 23.9 ft Gross tonnage 1422 Purchased in 1871 by Hooper's Telegraph Works Ltd., and fitted out for cable laying by the installation of a combined paying out-picking up machine, four cable tanks, and two bow sheaves. In 1879 the vessel was sold to the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company for use as a repair ship based at Zanzibar.
Great Northern remained at Zanzibar for the remainder of her career which came to an end on 5 December 1902 when returning to Zanzibar from Bawe Island she was wrecked on a reef named Fungu Ghawamba. The cable machinery was salvaged. CABLE WORK
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Last revised: 22 December, 2019 |
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