| 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