| Name: | BLACK EAGLE |
| Launched: | 1852 |
| Completed: | 10/1852 |
| Builder: | John Bell, North Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 111grt, 42nrt, 87.5 x 17.1 x 9.7ft; (by 1871: 110grt, 40nrt) |
| Engines: | 52nhp |
| Engines by: | JP Almond, North Shields |
| Propulsion: | Paddle |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | 43311 |
| History: | |
| 19/10/1852 | Anthony Strong, Joseph Hall, Andrew Brown and |
| Christopher & Thomas Barker, North Shields; registered at North Shields | |
| 27/09/1853 | John & William Buchanan, Robert Barclay and James Watson, Glasgow |
| 27/09/1853 | Registered at Glasgow |
| 04/05/1854 | Alexander Dove & John Oswald, Melbourne; registered at Melbourne |
| 09/1866 | John Oswald & Daniel Inglis, Melbourne |
| by 1871 | HR Reid & JC Poole, Melbourne |
| 05/1872 | Melbourne Towage Co, Melbourne |
| 26/12/1884 | Sank |
| Comments: | 11/1853: Hull strengthened, paddles unshipped and |
| rigged as a schooner for passage to Melbourne | |
| 22/9/1854: Fleet sold at auction & Alexander Dove returned to England | |
| 26/12/1884: Sank alongside St Kilda Pier in Hobson's Bay, Victoria | |
| Had been carrying passengers on an excursion to St Kilda | |
| 30/12/1884: Auctioned and sold for ten pounds to John Clark | |
| Subsequently refloated, towed to Williamstown & dismantled | |
| Remains sunk alongside Breakwater Pier at Williamstown |