| Name: | COURIER |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 11/07/1850 |
| Completed: | 1850 |
| Builder: | Coutts & Parkinson |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 569nrt, 130.0 x 29.0 x 18.9ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 24979 |
| History: | |
| 14/01/1851 | John Smith, Monkwearmouth |
| 01/10/1851 | George Gray, Newcastle; registered at Newcastle |
| 28/09/1861 | George Cairns, Newcastle |
| 15/02/1862 | George Cairns, Newcastle and Christopher & Thomas Barker, South Shields |
| 08/03/1867 | Peter Stuart & Peter Douglas, Liverpool; registered at Liverpool |
| 10/04/1871 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | Completed at Sunderland |
| Capacity for 1000 tons of cargo on a draft of 15.0ft | |
| 13/03/1871: Put into Fayal (The Azores), leaking and discharged cargo | |
| On a voyage from Benin to Liverpool with a cargo of palm oil | |
| 10/04/1871: Wrecked on the island of Pico, the Azores |
The Newcastle Courant, Friday, 12/07/1850
Shipping & Mercantile Gazette, Saturday, 22/04/1871