| Name: | RUBY |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 1797 |
| Completed: | 07/1797 |
| Builder: | Edward Mosley |
| Yard: | Howdon |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 185tonsb, 79.8 x 23.8 x ?ft; (1856: 177nrt, 80.2 x 23.8 x 14.0ft) |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Brigantine; (1856: Snow) |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 2980 |
| History: | |
| 25/07/1797 | Edward Mosely and Francis & Thomas Hurry, Howdon |
| 18xx | Registered at London |
| 1853 | Registered at Sunderland |
| 13/06/1856 | William Longstaff Hall, Sunderland |
| 13/06/1856 | John Spoor, South Shields |
| 25/07/1856 | John Spoor, South Shields & John Johnson Robertson, Newcastle |
| 22/10/1860 | John Spoor, South Shields |
| 10/11/1860 | Sank |
| Comments: | 10/11/1860: Abandoned in a sinking condition 10 miles S of Flamborough Head |
| On a voyage from the Tyne to London with a cargo of coal |