| Name: | FRIENDS |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 1780 |
| Completed: | 1780 |
| Builder: | |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 179tonsb, 84.0 x 22.1 x ?ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Snow |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | |
| History: | |
| 1780 | Unknown owner |
| 28/09/1786 | James Montgomery, North Shields |
| c1813 | Registered at Bridlington |
| 10/08/1818 | William Walker, South Shields; registered at Shields |
| 31/01/1826 | Alice Walker, South Shields |
| 26/11/1831 | Cuthbert Young, South Shields |
| 12/07/1839 | Thomas Young, North Shields |
| 17/08/1848 | Mary Young, North Shields |
| 09/11/1850 | Abandoned |
| Comments: | May have been completed in 1779 |
| 09/11/1850: Abandoned 40 miles SW of Heligoland | |
| On a voyage from the Tyne to Holland |