The wooden barque J.P.Smith was built by Mckay and Warner at Quebec in 1869 and originally named Manoah. Registered at 772 tons (791 gross) and measuring 156½ feet in length with a 34½ foot beam, she was purchased by John Peacock Smith of Liverpool in September 1869 and renamed J.P.Smith in his honour. Resold to North Waleian owners in 1876, she was still in their employ when, in October 1886, she arrived at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, having put back from Cape Horn whilst carrying a cargo of coal. Probably the result of rotten timbers, she was condemned that December and her registration cancelled thereafter (A painting of the J.P.Smith by Samuel Walters is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich).