Cuba was a 273-ton (or 272-ton in some sources) ship built at Liverpool in 1824 and owned by J Somes of London. She sailed with a surveyors' team headed by Captain William Mein Smith, R.A. on 15 September 1839 for New Zealand. She was followed from Gravesend, London, by Oriental, the first of five 500-ton immigrant ships hired by the company. She returned to England in early 1840.
