Norte. She was scuttled (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki) far from her Cork origins and Glanmire. This event was confirmed for this barque (Reg. 8367) by the Unseaworthy Ship Commission.
Additional information:
This ship sailed on West Indies’ trade routes.
The Huguenot Hardys of Cork were established shipowners and merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, trading extensively with the West Indies and Henry Hardy was First Secretary to the Cork Harbour Commissioners 1814 – 1847 (Appendix 6: West Indiamen). Captains George Barclay and Joseph Barrett, Mate George Clarke and AB Isaac Jones Hall all served on other Hardy ships. UK M&M; Lloyd’s; Anderson, Sailing Ships of Ireland ; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.
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Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Barnstaple 1841
206t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Connel &
Foreign trade 1842 – 4 Sullivan
Mate:
1844 John Healy b.1822 (Cork) 1843 John Matson b.1822 (Cork) This ship voyaged to the West Indies.
Seaman:
Additional information:
Barnstaple in North Devon was a former river port near the Bristol Channel. The Cork Brig Lauriston was also built in Barnstaple.
Mate John Healy would be Mate on Kate Kearney and Joseph Wheeler and obtain his Master Certificate in 1856.
Seaman John Matson would earn his Master Certificate and become captain of the Joseph Wheeler in 1853. His son, John George Matson, would be indentured in 1863 to Sutton & Donovan Sailmakers of Cork whose proprietors were George Sutton Jr (b.1836) and Andrew Donovan (b.1834). Cork had an excellent reputation for sail-making and the Huguenot Besnard family had established in Cork the greatest sail-cloth industry in the world by the late eighteenth century (see also Ellen Pope ) (De Courcy). Lloyd’s; UK M&M; UK Nat ArchBT112; Sailmaker Indenture Document; De Courcy, Ireland’s Maritime Heritage.
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