| Name: | JAMES DIXON |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 20/08/1859 |
| Completed: | 09/1859 |
| Builder: | Palmer Bros & Co |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 88 |
| Dimensions: | 1053grt, 838nrt, 235.8 x 32.7 x 17.2ft; (1865: 1086grt, 239.9 x 32.8 x 17.3ft) |
| Engines: | 2cyl, 120hp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 27912; (1865: 51369) |
| History: | |
| 13/09/1859 | William Cory & Son, London |
| 15/08/1865 | Edmond Crawshay, Gateshead and Joseph Scott & John Jameson, Newcastle |
| 15/08/1865 | Renamed ARCHIMEDES |
| 29/01/1866 | William Hawthorn Jnr, John Jameson, William Milburn, Thomas Eustace Smith and |
| Ralph Brown & John Henry Burns, Newcastle plus Robert Gray, Blyth | |
| 01/09/1869 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 07/11/1863: Collided with the Austrian brig ELI on the Tyne bar and then ran onto the |
| foundations of the South Pier becoming a total wreck | |
| Fore part of the wreck, plus the engines, subsequently salvaged & rebuilt by the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd at St Peter's | |
| 08/1865: Mistakenly re-registered as a new ship & allocated a new Registration Number | |
| 1867: Chartered by RS Newall & Co of Gateshead to lay a telegraph cable from Newbiggin in Northumberland to Denmark | |
| 01/09/1869: Wrecked on the coast of Gotland | |
| On a voyage from Cronstadt to London with a cargo of hemp, wheat and oats |
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Monday, 09/11/1863
Sheffield Independent, Tuesday, 17/11/1863
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Thursday, 19/11/1863
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, Saturday, 21/11/1863
Dundee Courier, Monday, 23/11/1863
Newcastle Courant, Friday, 27/11/1863
Shields Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 02/08/1864