| Name: | JOHN GRAFTON |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 15/11/1883 |
| Completed: | 12/1883 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 526 |
| Dimensions: | 563grt, 315nrt, 158.0 x 28.8 x 13.8ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (23 & 45 x 30ins), 80rhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 89504 |
| History: | |
| 24/12/1883 | Stephenson Clarke & Co Ltd, London |
| 1905 | RR Dickinson & Co, London |
| 1905 | Unknown owners |
| 06/09/1905 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 06/09/1905: Wrecked off Kalskoer, about 18 miles from Jacobstad |
| She was carrying weapons, ammunition and explosives being smuggled | |
| into Russia for the Socialist Revolutionary Party and was sailing under | |
| the Dutch flag with her name painted out |
Jarrow Express, Friday, 15/09/1905