| Name: | PROPELLER |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 21/12/1854 |
| Completed: | 03/1855 |
| Builder: | TD Marshall |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | 48 |
| Dimensions: | 728grt, 495nrt, 188.0 x 27.7 x 16.5ft; (1861: 617grt, 458nrt, 561dwt) |
| Engines: | 2cyl (42 & 42 x 33ins), 120nhp; (1873: C2cyl (26 & 48 x 30ins), 95nhp |
| Engines by: | TD Marshall, South Shields; (1873: Humphreys & Pearson, Hull) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 5505; (1864: 47924) |
| History: | |
| 07/03/1855 | North of Europe Steam Navigation Co, London, (WS Andrews, manager) |
| 26/02/1861 | HarveyJ Perlbach & Co, Hamburg; renamed ROLAND |
| 14/03/1864 | George Lawson, Hull; registered at Hull; renamed HERO |
| 07/12/1864 | Harvey J Perlbach & Co, Hamburg; renamed ROLAND |
| 1899 | A Kirsten, Hamburg |
| 1904 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 60 x 1st Class passengers |
| 01/02/1864: The Second Schleswig War broke out between Germany and Denmark | |
| Laid up at Hull to avoid being captured in the North Sea by Danish warships | |
| 14/03/1864: Renamed & registered at Hull | |
| 30/10/1864: Second Schleswig War ends | |
| 1873: Re-engined by Humphreys & Pearson, Hull | |
| 1904: Sold for breaking up at Hamburg by RH Neugebauer | |
| 21/10/1905: Registered as breaking up completed |
The Artizan, September 1855