Fig. 6: View towards Victoria Quay, with Albert Quay and Cork City Hall on the right. Robert Sutton, the shipwright, had a yard, residence and spirit store on Victoria Road, close to where it joined Victoria Quay.
Other family members contributed to the Cork maritime community as shipowners, steam tug owners and operators, ship agents and sailmakers, while Robert Sutton (born c.1804, second generation, see above) was a shipwright with premises on Victoria Road near Victoria Quay (Fig. 6). Abraham Sutton later had a coal yard on this property in 1871. The last two of the second generation’s major figures died within four years of ea ch other: George Sutton in 1882 and Abraham Sutton in 1886. Fourth-generation Suttons including Captains Nathaniel Sutton (b.1855), George Sutton (b.1856), George Lane Sutton (b.1865) and Abraham Sutton (b.1867), continued service on Sutton sailing ships as did Mate Thomas Sutton (b.1871). However, times were changing for these mariner families and the late decades of the century saw many young members abandoning the life at sea, most notably for the field of medicine. The Sutton sailing ships dwindled in number. The iron-hulled sailing collier George Sutton was lost returning from Newcastle with coal in 1883. The brigantine Camilla was wrecked near Tramore, returning to Cork with coal in 1885. The iron-hulled steamship Abraham Sutton was purchased by George Abraham Sutton in 1883; the port or registration and possibly ownership, moved to Glasgow in 1892. She was wrecked on shoals voyaging from Sydney, Cape Breton to Halifax, Nova Scotia later that year. Captain Nicholas Reynolds owned the
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