Boutland Bill Quay Shipbuilder

Above map shows the location of Boutland's Yard at Bill Quay. Map is copyright of Google

William Edward Boutland was born in Bill Quay in 1819 and served his apprenticeship with his father William Snr. William Snr was a builder of wooden colliers at Bill Quay and a well known salvage operator throughout the North East of England.
At the death of his father in 1852, William Jr took over the salvage business himself and eventually commenced building ships at Bill Quay in 1870. However he stopped in 1879 when he leased Barker's Dock at South Shields as a ship repairer. Barker's Dock was then sold to Hepple & Co in 1896 and William Jr died in September 1899 in his 80th year.

Yd No	Year	Ship Name	D / H / P
	1818	Hannah's Success	D / H
	1819	Hunter	D / H
	1820	George and Mary	D / H
	1821	John and Jane	D / H
	1824	Harbinger	D / H
	1824	Scotia	D / H
	1824	Three Friends	D / H
	1825	Hebburn Hall	D / H
	1825	James and Mary
	1825	Violet
	1826	Edmund Castle	D / H
	1826	John and Susan
	1826	New Holland	D / H
	1828	Cassiopea	D / H
	1828	Friendship	D
	1829	Friends
	1829	Jean & Mary	D / H
	1829	John and Jane
	1830	Harriet and Jane
	1831	Douro	D / H
	1831	Edward Castle?
	1831	Letitia
	1832	Earl Grey	D
	1832	Tyne	D / H
	1833	Jean & Mary
	1833	Meldon	D / H
	1833	Queen of the Isles	D / H
	1833	Talbot
	1834	Diana
	1834	Glenmoriston
	1834	Luna	D / H
	1834	Margaret
	1835	Ellisons	D / H
	1835	Hibernia	D / H
	1837	Joseph & Jane
	1841	William Crow	D / H
	1843	Albion	D / H
	1844	Princess Alice	D / H
	1845	Edward
	1845	Wee Tottie	D / H
	1845	William Thorp
	1846	John Whale
	1847	George Boutland	D / H
	1849	Brecknells
	1852	Maid of the Isles	D / H
	1852	William and Thomas	D / H
	1853	George	D / H
	1854	Crimea	D / H
	1854	Glenaen	D / H
	1854	Sir William Pulteney
1	1872	Rio Lima	D / H
2	1873	Scotsman	D / H
3	1874	Edenholme	D / H / P
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