| Name: | POLKA |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 01/1845 |
| Completed: | 02/1845 |
| Builder: | Messrs Hair |
| Yard: | St Lawrence |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 170nrt, 85.2 x 21.4 x 12.6ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Brig; (Later: Snow) |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 2158 |
| History: | |
| 28/02/1845 | John Ormston, William John Van Haansbergen & Robert Anderson, Newcastle and |
| John Cuthbert Potts, Gateshead | |
| 21/12/1850 | Matthew Robson, South Shields |
| 27/03/1852 | Registered at Shields |
| 10/09/1856 | Matthew Nesbitt, Newcastle |
| 23/03/1858 | Matthew Nesbitt, Newcastle & Frederick William Mace, Weymouth |
| 21/02/1868 | William Nesbitt Chapman, Heworth & Frederick William Mace, Weymouth |
| 28/02/1872 | Frederick William Mace, Weymouth |
| 03/1872 | Frederick William Mace & Thomas John Templeman, Weymouth |
| 18/01/1873 | Frederick William Mace, Thomas John Templeman & William Richard Mace, Weymouth |
| 16/11/1876 | Robert A Ayles, Weymouth; registered at Weymouth |
| 01/03/1882 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 09/10/1871: William Nesbitt Chapman died |
| 01/03/1882: Wrecked on Shingles Shoal, River Thames | |
| On a voyage from Guernsey to London with a cargo of granite |