| Name: | BLENHEIM | 
| Type: | Sailing Vessel | 
| Launched: | 18/07/1848 | 
| Completed: | 1848 | 
| Builder: | T & W Smith | 
| Yard: | St Peter's | 
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 1314grt, 175.5 x 37.7 x 29.6ft | 
| Engines: | None | 
| Engines by: | n/a | 
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship | 
| Construction: | Wood | 
| Reg Number: | 23278 | 
| History: | |
| 1848 | T & W Smith; registered at Newcastle | 
| 1848 | Registered at London | 
| 1868 | Government of India | 
| No further history known | |
| Comments: | Armed as an East Indiaman | 
| 1867: Dismasted in a cyclone on passage from Madras to Calcutta | |
| 1868: Deemed uneconomic to repair, so sold as a hulk | |
| Subsequently used as a coal hulk in the Nicobar Islands | 

Artist Thomas Goldsworth Dutton. Copyright National Maritime Museum


The Newcastle Courant, Friday, July 21, 1848