| Name: | NEWCASTLE | 
| Launched: | 1824 | 
| Completed: | 03/1824 | 
| Builder: | R Ridley, North Shore, Newcastle | 
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 34tonsb, 65.5 x 16.3 x 7.0ft; | 
| (1837: 93grt,42nrt, 86.0 x 14.6 x 9.8ft); (1859: 77grt, 32nrt) | |
| Engines: | Grasshopper type, 45nhp | 
| Engines by: | W Hawks, Gateshead | 
| Propulsion: | Paddle | 
| Construction: | Wood | 
| Reg Number: | (1851: 4376) | 
| History: | |
| 29/03/1824 | W Brown, R Anderson, R Digmoure & M Knox, Newcastle | 
| 10/06/1826 | W Lorraine, Sunderland; registered at Sunderland | 
| 05/07/1833 | John Coull Carr, Bishopswearmouth | 
| 21/12/1836 | William Forster, Wapping | 
| 29/08/1837 | William Copeland, Walter Urquhart, Edward Oswin & Thomas Drape, London; | 
| Trading as Symington Patent Paddle Towing Co, London | |
| 03/03/1847 | William Gunston, Walter Urquhart, Edward Oswin & Thomas Drape, London; | 
| Trading as Ship Owners' Towing Co, London | |
| 01/11/1851 | Registered at London | 
| 22/05/1858 | Thomas Iremonger, Stephen Olliver & Thomas Marshall, Littlehampton | 
| 22/05/1858 | Registered at Arundel | 
| 08/08/1863 | W Nutter and G Winton, Littlehampton | 
| 1866 | Broken up | 
| Comments: | 05/04/1837: Lengthened and rebuilt | 
| Possibly renamed NEPTUNE for a period during 1840s | |
| 1866: Registry closed as "stated to be broken up" | |
| Thanks to David Asprey for the above details |