William Gray & Company

William Gray & Company
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1863
Defunct1962
FateVoluntary liquidation
Headquarters,
England
Key people
John Punshon Denton
Sir William Gray
Sir William Cresswell Gray, Bt.
Sir William Gray, Bt.

William Gray & Company Ltd. was a British shipbuilding company located in West Hartlepool, County Durham, in North East England. Founded in 1863 by John Denton and William Gray as a partnership, it became a private and then a public limited company under the leadership of three generations of the Gray family until finally wound up in 1962.