| Name: | ARTHUR WELLESLEY |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 15/05/1854 |
| Completed: | 06/1854 |
| Builder: | Morrison & Fawcus |
| Yard: | Limekiln Shore, North Shields |
| Yard Number: | 1 |
| Dimensions: | 358nrt, 115.0 x 24.0 x 17.8ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 26960 |
| History: | |
| 22/06/1854 | Edward Oliver, North Shields |
| 22/05/1858 | Edward Oliver, North Shields & William Briggs, Sunderland |
| 24/06/1859 | Anthony Strong, North Shields |
| 08/12/1859 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 08/12/1859: Wrecked at the entrance to the Bosphorus |
| On a voyage from Baltchik in the Black Sea to the UK with a cargo of barley | |
| There was only one survivor |
Newcastle Journal, Saturday, 20/05/1854
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Wednesday, 04/01/1860