Newcastle (clipper)

The Newcastle was a clipper ship of the Green Blackwell line that operated on routes from England to India and Australia in the late 19th century.

The Newcastle launched in 1857, 1275 tons, was built by W. Pile junior at Sunderland for Richard Green's London to India service.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has a bill of sale for the transaction (NMM MS GRN 14).

[1] The Newcastle was drawn by the artist William Foster in 1857, and his picture was made into a lithograph that same year by Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton; she was shown flying the Green Blackwall line House flag on her main mast.

[4] Sometime shortly before June 1883 when underway to Thursday Island to be hulked, she was stranded at Bushy Islet, in the Torres Strait.

Sailing ship Newcastle, wrecked in the Torres Strait. (Description supplied with the photograph).