| Name: | FORESTER | 
| Type: | Sailing Vessel | 
| Launched: | 1788 | 
| Completed: | 1788 | 
| Builder: | John Smith | 
| Yard: | South Shields | 
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 134tonsb, 71.1 x 21.4 x ?ft | 
| Engines: | None | 
| Engines by: | n/a | 
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (Later: Rigged as a Brig) | 
| Construction: | Wood | 
| Reg Number: | |
| History: | |
| 29/04/1788 | John Smith, South Shields & William Plaskedd, Lindhurst, Hampshire | 
| 01/07/1806 | John Smith, South Shields | 
| 1829 | Registered at Scarborough | 
| by 1834 | William Robson, Stockton and James Wilkie & Gustavous A Collingwood, Bishopwearmouth | 
| 28/08/1834 | William Gibbon, South Shields | 
| 14/05/1839 | Charles Newby Wawn, South Shields | 
| 18/01/1840 | Christopher Akenhead Wawn & Robert Henry Weightman, South Shields | 
| 29/11/1841 | Wrecked | 
| Comments: | 29/11/1841: Wrecked on Scroby Sand, off Yarmouth |