| Name: | BLACK BOY |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 21/09/1854 |
| Completed: | 12/1854 |
| Builder: | Palmer Bros & Co |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 23 |
| Dimensions: | 537grt, 433nrt, 164.0 x 26.5 x 15.7ft |
| Engines: | 2cyl, 70hp; (1876: C2cyl (23 & 42 x 26ins), 70hp) |
| Engines by: | R Stephenson & Co, Newcastle; |
| (1876: North-Eastern Marine & Engineering Co, Sunderland) | |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 30032 |
| History: | |
| 23/12/1854 | Nicholas Wood, Sunderland |
| by 1884 | Executors of N Wood |
| 1886 | John Wood, London |
| 1898 | George Lindsay Jnr, Sunderland |
| by 1904 | Hulked |
| Comments: | 1876: Re-engined |
| By 1904: Hulked at the Shetland whaling station |