| Name: | MERCHANT PACKET |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 1802 |
| Completed: | 07/1802 |
| Builder: | John Summers |
| Yard: | Gateshead |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 168tonsb, 75.2 x 22.9 x ?ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Schooner; (1809:Brigantine) |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 2028 |
| History: | |
| 10/07/1802 | John Hawks, Samuel Walker Parker & John Featherston, Newcastle |
| 12/01/1809 | George & John Hawks and George Straker, Gateshead |
| 07/09/1809 | George Straker et al, Gateshead |
| 23/06/1827 | George Straker, South Shields |
| 24/07/1841 | Richard Wellington Hodgeson & Henry Richard Straker, South Shields |
| 17/01/1850 | Richard Wellington Hodgeson, South Shields |
| 08/07/1854 | John Morrison, North Shields |
| 15/08/1858 | Abandoned |
| Comments: | 17/01/1850: Following death of Henry Richard Straker |
| 15/08/1858: Abandoned in the Bay of Biscay |