| 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