| 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: | 507grt, 370nrt, 190.4 x 25.1 x 14.6ft; (1865: 508grt, 365nrt); |
| (1869: 576grt, 440nrt, 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 |
| 22/05/1862 | Unknown owner; registered at Liverpool |
| 29/09/1864 | William Bailey & William Leetham, Hull; registered at Hull |
| 02/03/1865 | Unknown owner, Overseas; renamed ACOR |
| 03/05/1865 | William Bailey, Hull; registered at Hull; renamed DESPATCH |
| 02/03/1866 | William HH Hutchinson, Hull |
| 19/03/1866 | William HH Hutchinson & Charles F Earle, Hull |
| 12/03/1869 | William HH Hutchinson & Charles F Earle, Hull |
| 25/07/1870 | William HH Hutchinson, Hull |
| 20/03/1873 | John Bell, Prestwick; 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