19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

1854 – 5 Benjamin V Reynolds b.1834 (Passage West) 1861 Timothy John Donovan b.1839 (Kinsale)**

1863 –4 Arthur O’Leary b.1839 (Cork) 1864 Timothy Allen b.1828 (Kinsale) 1864 William Dineen b.1844 (Cork) 1877 –83 Joseph O’Keefe b.1850 (Cork)

Seaman:

1845 – 7 Robert Sutton b.1832 (Courtmacsherry) 1858 – 62 John Shea b.1836 (Wexford) 1861/62 Robert Jeffers b.1844 (Kinsale) 1864 Richard Wheatley b.1835 (Arklow) 1877 Thomas Kidney b.1828 (Crosshaven) 1842 – 5 Robert Sutton b.1832 (Courtmacsherry) 1844 – 8 John Sutton b.1834 (Kinsale) 1852 Robert Sutton b.1836 (Cork)

Apprentice:

Fate of ship:

Unknown.

Additional information:

Captain Abraham Sutton retired from sailing in June 1846 in order to concentrate, with his mariner brothers, on the family business particularly the coal trade. Ships were purchased and properties were acquired by George and Abraham for coal yards and stables. Captain George Sutton remained at sea when he took over captaincy of Girl I Love in July 1846 and continued to experience the dangers that role entailed. He was interviewed by the Monmouthshire Merlin around 1 December 1846 after surviving a violent gale: ‘By the kindness of Captain Sutton of Girl I Love , we have learnt that on his passage from Cork to Newport, on Sunday last (29 November), he saw, 20 miles S.E. by S. of Cork, the deck of a vessel waterlogged and dismasted, with spars floating around her, and doubtless all hands lost. Several vessels which left Cork on Thursday week, and should have arrived on Sunday last, not having arrived in this port up to yesterday, are thought to be lost’ (see also Robert Lawe and Kangaroo ). Captain Nathaniel Sutton, a son of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794, Clonakilty), retired from sailing ships to become the captain/owner of the 33t steam-tug Pilot in Cork Harbour 1869 – -72. He was then appointed Deputy Cork Harbour Master in Queenstown in 1873, where he lived with his family at Bellevue Terrace, which looks out over the Harbour and Spike Island (see Spike Island in Appendix). He would later become Cork Harbour Master and Bailiff 1883 – 1917, upon the retirement of Captain Edward Byrne. Captain Nathaniel Sutton lived on Summerhill Road at 2 Empress Place and then at Eagle Lodge, after the death of his brother-in-law Thomas Lane. Many years after the Suttons had departed Empress

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