The British bark NAPOLEON III, 297 tons, was built under Lloyd's Register of Shipping Special Survey at Sunderland, in 1855. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1856/57 through 1861/62 give the following information:

Master:
     1856/57-1858/59 - A. Smith [owner]
     1859/60-1861/62 - A. Cameron
     1861/62         - Stodley

Owner:  A. Smith & [Co].

Port of Registry:  Sunderland

Port of Survey:  Sunderland

Destined Voyage:
     1856/57-1861/62 - Mediterranean
     1861/62         - Black Sea

The vessel's entry in Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1861/62 is posted "wrecked", an event which must have taken place sometime between February (the date she was last surveyed at Sunderland) and June (the month the 1862/63 volume of the Register was published) 1862. There is no reference to the wreck in the abstract returns of wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom for 1862 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1863 [3216] lxiii.165), and the event most probably took place somewhere between Brittany and the Black Sea.