Additional information:
This vessel (Reg: 8426) voyaged extensively between Kinsale and Bristol Channel ports until 1870, when she was sold by Robert Landers of Kinsale to Yelverton of Cork.
I am unable to verify on which Kinsale vessel sailors Connelly, McCarthy and Twohig served.
Apprentice John Twohig was closely associated with the Clonakilty Suttons who were already sailing on vessels out of Kinsale at this time.
References:
*IMNCL; #UK Nat Arch BT112; Lloyd’s ; UK M&M; Sutton and Donovan Family Histories.
ELIZABETH
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Bristol 1821
145t; Schooner
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Reeves&Co.
Foreign trade: Newfoundland
1836 – 44 William Keller b.1765 (Passage)#524 1843 Frederick Driscoll b.1783(Courtmacsherry)# 1836 James McCartney b.1775 (Kinsale)#2215
Seaman:
Fate of ship:
Unknown.
Additional information:
Elizabeth (Reg: 29.95) was one of Thomas Somerville Reeves’ fish trade schooners (Appendix 6: Fish Trade). Reeves & Co of Cork owned fish trade schooners in the early nineteenth century as did the Kinsale Shipping Co . later in the century (Anderson). Kinsale had a history in connection with the fish trade. See below Elizabeth & Sarah and the Roches of Kinsale. The captaincy of this vessel was ascertained by the ship registered number, 29.95 in the mariners’ UK BT112 records. This was under the ship registration method before the Official Number system (Preface 2) . Driscoll’s certificate number is lacking, hence just the # to indicate information origin.
Captain Keller apparently continued to voyage the Atlantic well into his seventies.
Seaman James McCartney's correct placement based on ship registration number (29.95) on his BT112 record.
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