Fate of ship:
Holed by an anchor and sunk at Hubberston Pill, Pembrokeshire, voyaging from Cork to Cardiff, 14 December 1847 (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). This ship documents an active Courtmacsherry shipyard in 1827. Captain Daniel Donovan documented here in BT112 is consistent with his captaincy of Cambria during 1845, documented in archival BT98/615 records at Kew.
Additional information:
References:
# UK Nat Arch BT112; Lloyd’s.
FORTUNE
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Peterhead 1818
133t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Coates&C, Reeves&c
Foreign trade
1839 – 42 Lee 1840 – 2 Thomas Balley b.1804 (Bideford) 1843 – 4 J Barron
Fate of ship:
Unknown.
Additional information:
This ship sailed on routes to the West Indies and Mediterranean.
Thomas Somerville Reeves 1789 – 1868 was a major Cork shipowner and a trustee of the Cork Shipowners Society. He was a Cork Harbour Commissioner for most of the years between 1821 and 1868 (see T S Reeves ). Captain Balley was the prior master of Perilla of Cork and would next move to Zorilda of Cork (also owned by Coates and Reeves). Lloyd’s ; UK M&M; Anderson, Sailing Ships of Ireland ; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.
References:
FREEMAN
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Cork 1839 196t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity:
Connell&
Foreign trade: Jamaica
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