| Name: | PROTOMELIA |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 1842 |
| Completed: | 08/1842 |
| Builder: | Thomas Young & Son |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 478nrt, 108.8 x 24.7 x 19.2ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Barque |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 27187 |
| History: | |
| 06/08/1842 | James Young, South Shields and Thomas & Mary Young, North Shields |
| 01/11/1846 | James Young, South Shields & Mary Young, North Shields |
| 01/10/1847 | James Young, South Shields and Mary & Emmanuel Young, North Shields |
| 16/12/1862 | Emmanuel, Cuthbert & Charles Octavia Young, South Shields |
| 14/01/1864 | Wrecked |
| Comments: | 11/1846: Following the death of Thomas Young |
| 14/01/1864: Wrecked on Point Isabella, Haiti | |
| On a voyage from Saman, Dominican Republic to Jamaica |