FANNY PALMER
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
St John, New Brunswick 1859
195t; Brigantine
Home port:
Youghal
Owner: Activity: Master:
Thomas Fitzgerald
Foreign and coastal trade
1867 Thomas Fitzgerald b.1820 (Crosshaven)* 1867 Andrew Hart b.1812 (Crosshaven)* 1868 – 9 John Spillane b.1819 (Crosshaven)* 1870 John Bease b.1830 (Clonakilty)* 1872 James Prendergast b.1846 (Youghal)* 1867 – 8 Philip Harrington b.1841 (Crosshaven)* 1869 James O’Brien b.1806 (Dungarvan)* 1870 John O’Donovan b.1836 (Kinsale)* 1871 Thomas Foley b.1847 (Dungarvan)*
Mate:
Fate of ship:
‘The 194t brig Fanny Palm er of Youghal was wrecked on the Arklow Bank on 29-11-1872. Captain Guest and his crew were rescued by an Arklow boat’ (Bourke). The captain was, as is clear from IMNCL papers, Captain James Prendergast. The same papers confirm that the vessel was abandoned on 29 November 1872. She was on a voyage from Kingstown, Co Dublin to Cardiff, Glamorgan (List of Shipwrecks – Wiki). This ship traded with Miramichi, British North America and the USA in the 1860s. Construction information obtained from the ‘Unseaworthy Ship Commission’ (CLIP). Captain Thomas Fitzgerald on renewing his Master Certificate in 1880 indicated his prior ownership and captaincy of Fanny Palmer and Mary Hounsell of Youghal and residence on Grattan St, Youghal. *IMNCL; CLIP; UK M&M; Bourke, Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast.
Additional information:
References:
FERONIA
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Tatma 1845
109t; Brigantine Cork & Youghal
Home port:
Owner: Activity: Master:
McCormack Coastal trade
1846 – 8 William Gore b.1820 (Belfast) 1849-51 A Fowler
1849 – 50 Michael Spillane b.1827 (Crosshaven) 1849 – 55 Thomas Perry b.1819 (Appledore, Devon) 1856 – 7 John Prendergast b.1797 (Youghal)
Fate of ship:
Unknown.
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