| Name: | NEWCASTLE |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 18/12/1861 |
| Completed: | 03/1862 |
| Builder: | Marshall Bros |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 226grt, 169nrt, 125.1 x 20.5 x 11.5ft; (1869: 282grt, 210nrt, 151.4 x 20.9 x 11.1ft); |
| (1881: 310grt, 221nrt); (1884: 310grt, 191nrt) | |
| Engines: | I2cyl (27 & 27 x 24ins), 45nhp; (1884: T3cyl (13, 21 x 40 x 24ins), 74nhp |
| Engines by: | Marshall Bros, South Shields; (1884: E Wales, Hull) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 43636 |
| History: | |
| 03/1862 | Thomas Fotherby Bell, Hull; registered at South Shields |
| 31/03/1869 | Registered at Hull |
| 12/07/1880 | Alfred F Bell, Hull |
| 13/04/1883 | William HH Hutchinson, Cottingham, Hull |
| 22/03/1884 | Renamed SWALLOW |
| 24/03/1884 | Re-registered at Hull |
| 03/1889 | D & W Taylor, Dundee |
| 24/05/1890 | Sank |
| Comments: | 1862: Built for the Newcastle to Hull service |
| 1868: Lengthened to 151.4ft | |
| 1884: Re-engined | |
| 03/1889: Purchased for £3,250 & repaired for £250 | |
| 24/05/1890: Foundered 46 miles east of Coquet Island, Northumberland | |
| On a voyage from Clackmannan to Hamburg with a cargo of coal |