WILLIAM TURNBULL

THORNABY-ON-TEES

A small amount of information is available about this shipyard building sailing vessels in the 1800's,

see the article on this link - An Early Tea Clipper

The yard is quoted as having been on the south side of the Tees, therefore in what is now Thornaby rather than Stockton

And from David Asprey, a partial history of this vessel, probably a paddle tug -

COVENANTER (1854 – 1855)  iron paddle vessel?
O.N. 25874.   154g. 71n.   110.4 x 17.1 x 10.6 feet.
Steam
1846: Built by William Turnbull & Company, Stockton-on-Tees (Yard No. ??) for James & Alexander Bremner and John R Bell, Liverpool. 

31.3.1854: Purchased by William Jolliffe, Liverpool. 

08.1855: Sold to London owners.

Registered in period 1857-1859 to A. Pervanogler, 1860-1864 to G. C. Frangluadi

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