Place, it was commandeered by the Black and Tans as their Headquarters during the War of Independence.
Four pairs of master mariner brothers were associated with this ship: Abraham Sutton and George Sutton, Nathaniel Sutton and George Nathaniel Sutton, Robert Sutton and John Sutton and lastly, Robert Francis Reynolds and Benjamin Vincent Reynolds. The Reynolds and Donovans were related to the Suttons by marriage. Mate (and future Captain) Timothy John Donovan was the son of Captain Timothy Donovan (b.1805, Kinsale) and he was recorded by the **Scotland 1861 Census as the Mate on Girl I Love in Dundonald, Ayreshire along with Captain Nathaniel Sutton and the Captain’s wife, Anne (Lane) Sutton. Captain William Dineen, who had been a mate on the George Lawrence , was the last captain of Girl I Love . He made a voyage as Mate on the 73t barque Arthur White in 1879 and, c. 1879, purchased Abraham Sutton’s Girl I Love , which he then captained until 1883. #UK Nat Arch BT98/616, BT120/5, BT112; **Scotland Census 1861; CLIP; IMNCL; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; ‘Disasters at sea’ Monmouthshire Merlin (reprinted in the Cork Examiner, 4 Dec 1846); O’Riordan, Portraiture of the Cork Harbour Commissioners.
References:
GLANMIRE
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Cork 1840
246t; Barque
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Hardy&S
Foreign trade
1841 – 5 George Barclay b.1806 (Cork) 1846 – 50 Joseph Barrett b.1816 (St Mawes) 1842 – 4 Richard Francis Cuthbert b.1812 (Cork) 1844 George William Slorach b.1823 (Cork) 1846 – 8 Frederick Wherland b.1829 (Cork) 1855 George Clarke b.1828 (Belfast) 1857 – 9 Francis Joseph Clarke b.1836 (Cork)
Mate:
Seaman:
1845 Cornelius Meany b.1823 (Cork) 1848-9 Isaac Jones Hall b.1830 (Cork) !851 – 2 Timothy McCarthy b.1831 (Passage West) Moved to the Port of Liverpool 1865 (CLIP). She caught fire and was severely damaged 29 Jan 1870 at Rio Grande do
Fate of ship:
142
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