| Name: | DESPATCH also seen as DISPATCH |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 14/07/1855 |
| Completed: | 10/1855 |
| Builder: | T & W Smith |
| Yard: | North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 469grt, 200.0 x 25.0 x 15.0ft; (1869: 554grt, 407nrt, 217.4 x 25.1 x 14.6ft) |
| Engines: | 2cyl, 120hp; (1868: CI2cyl (25 & 43 x 30ins), 90hp) |
| Engines by: | R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; (1868: C & W Earle, Hull) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 25048 |
| History: | |
| 08/11/1855 | Dublin & Liverpool Steam Packet Co; registered at Dublin |
| by 1858 | Registered at Dundalk |
| 03/03/1865 | Unknown owner, Overseas; renamed ACOR |
| by 1866 | William Bailey, Hull; registered at Hull; renamed DESPATCH |
| 19/03/1866 | William HH Hutchinson & Charles F Earle, Hull |
| 1873 | John Bell, Ayr; registered at Glasgow |
| 21/10/1888 | Sank |
| Comments: | 1868: Engine compounded |
| 1869: Lengthened to 217.4ft | |
| 21/10/1888: Foundered off Rosetta, crew & passengers saved |
North & South Shields Gazette, Friday, 20/07/1855