| Name: | GALATEA | 
| Type: | Sailing Vessel | 
| Launched: | 1797 | 
| Completed: | 11/1797 | 
| Builder: | Simon Temple Jnr | 
| Yard: | South Shields | 
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 131tonsb, 69.1 x 21.2 x ?ft | 
| Engines: | None | 
| Engines by: | n/a | 
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Brig | 
| Construction: | Wood | 
| Reg Number: | 13609 | 
| History: | |
| 21/11/1797 | John Cheesment, Sunderland | 
| 23/02/1801 | John Rawling, Bishopwearmouth | 
| 06/12/1808 | Robert Gibbon, Monkwearmouth | 
| 24/05/1810 | William Smith, South Shields | 
| 10/09/1810 | John Ness & John Ness Jnr, South Shields | 
| 03/01/1824 | George, Thomas & Philip Young, North Shields | 
| 15/12/1835 | Thomas & Philip Young, North Shields | 
| 25/09/1852 | John Alexander, Guernsey | 
| 11/03/1854 | Registered at Shoreham | 
| by 1861 | John Crouch, Shoreham | 
| 22/10/1861 | Foundered | 
| Comments: | 22/10/1861: Foundered off Spurn | 
| On a voyage to Lowestoft |