Despatch was a brig noted for having shipwrecked near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, and for the subsequent heroic rescue of many of her passengers and crew.

Despatch was partly owned by William Lancaster of Workington, England.

The ship ran aground 10 July 1828 on a small, bare rocky island near Isle aux Morts off the south coast of Newfoundland.

A seventeen-year-old girl from the area, Ann Harvey, along with her father, her twelve-year-old brother and a dog, rescued 163 people from the wreck between 12 and 15 July.

[1] The English government later awarded them a medal and a sum of money for their heroic feat.