19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Fate of ship:

Driven ashore at Kingstown, Co Dublin, 27 February 1848, voyaging from Dublin to Cork. She was re-floated and taken into Kingstown (List of Shipwrecks – Wiki). This ship sailed from Cork to Quebec and on North American routes. Merimac is possibly Merrimac, Newburyport, Massachusetts, once a major shipbuilding centre. Edmund Burke 1806 – 85 was a wealthy Cork merchant and proprietor of Messrs. Burke Brothers & Co., corn and butter merchants. His brother, John Robert Burke, was head of Burke Brothers and a shipowner. Anderson suggested that the Burkes, like the Barrys and Seymours of Cork, owned shares of a considerable number of vessels. Captain Henry Hobbs was previously captain on the Duke of Clarence and later would captain William Large and Zephyr . Captain William Hyde was formerly Master of the Eliza Ann . Captain dates overlap with varying sources. Seaman James John Burke has dates of service that are based on cumulated data at the time of his Master Certificate application in 1853. Ll oyd’s; UK Nat Arch BT120; UK M&M; Anderson, Sailing Ships of Ireland; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.

Additional information:

References:

GRAND MASTER

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Nova Scotia 1853

155t; Brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner:

Timothy Donovan, George Sutton, Andrew Donovan, Nathaniel George Sutton

Activity: Master:

Coastal trade

1863 – 73 Timothy Donovan b.1805 (Kinsale)* 1866 Timothy Donovan b.1839 (Kinsale)* 1871 – 3 William Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1874 –6 Patrick O’Neill b.1822 (Cork) 1878 Timothy Buckley b.1830 (Crosshaven)* 1889 – 90 Andrew McDonnell b.1842 (Crosshaven)* 1866 – 7 William Mahony b.1821 (Crosshaven) 1868 – 73 William Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1875 –7 John Thomas O’Neill b.1856 (Cork)

Mate:

Seaman:

1866 John Fitzgerald b.1828 (Crosshaven) 1866 James Murray b.1835 (Crosshaven) 1867 Richard Wheatley b.1835 (Arklow)

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