Thanks Kevin, will pass that on. Maybe the enquiry is from someone wanting to book a drydocking
Perhaps I can lay claim to some valuable land around there, as recently as 1861 you would have found my Great Great Great Grandfather one Alexander Hughes living at Mill Dam Cottage, Brewery Lane, South Shields .... although by 1881 he had gone across the river to East Street, North Shields. His daughter Mary married master mariner William McLeod, which is the maiden name of my mother. The McLeods seemed to migrate southwards, marrying in Sunderland and then Thornaby in following generations, and working at sea or in the shipyards.
So that's why I can sing 'thoo can have a fishy' with a Scottish accent .....