| Name: | JOHN STRAKER |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 28/01/1871 |
| Completed: | 04/1871 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 263 |
| Dimensions: | 1289grt, 708nrt, 235.0 x 30.2 x 17.5ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (27 & 54 x 36ins), 180nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 63002 |
| History: | |
| 05/04/1871 | Harry Smith Edwards, South Shields |
| 1881 | W Milburn & Co, South Shields |
| 1885 | Daniel Jones, Cardiff; renamed RICHARD CORY |
| 1887 | EL Evan-Thomas, Cardiff; renamed PROVENCAL |
| 03/02/1889 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 04/07/1886: On fire and scuttled at Lisbon, salvaged and repaired |
| 03/02/1889: Wrecked on the south breakwater of the New Waterway | |
| when inward from Genoa & Marseille via Antwerp carrying general cargo |