| Name: | OPTIMA | 
| Type: | Sailing Vessel | 
| Launched: | 12/10/1867 | 
| Completed: | 10/1867 | 
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd | 
| Yard: | Jarrow | 
| Yard Number: | 222 | 
| Dimensions: | 499grt, 153.6 x 28.4 x 17.4ft | 
| Engines: | None | 
| Engines by: | n/a | 
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque | 
| Construction: | Iron | 
| Reg Number: | 56869 | 
| History: | |
| 14/10/1867 | Cuthbert Hutchinson, Whitburn; registered at London | 
| 10/04/1870 | Sank | 
| Comments: | 06/04/1870: Sank after a collision with VILLE DE HAVRE off Cape Doro | 
| On a voyage from Shields to Odessa with a cargo of coal | 

Shields Daily Gazette, Wednesday, 27/04/1870