| Name: | MELANCTHON |
| Type: | Sailing vessel |
| Launched: | 1854 |
| Completed: | 01/1855 |
| Builder: | Thomas Young & Son |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 455nrt, 124.9 x 24.4 x 18.5ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 12370 |
| History: | |
| 01/01/1855 | Mary and Emmanuel Young, North Shields |
| 12/10/1865 | Charles Octavius Young, North Shields |
| 15/11/1867 | Charles Tate, North Shields |
| 19/11/1867 | Charles & George Tate, North Shields and Robert Arthur & Louis Diezenger, Newcastle |
| 10/12/1871 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 10/12/1871: Wrecked south of Cape Bon |
| On a voyage from Naples to Susa in ballast |