19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

HESTER

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1827

81t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Brown & C, M Wallis

Coastal trade

1829 – 30 George Sutton b.1804 (Clonakilty) 1831 – 7 J Nichols 1836 – 9 William Sutton b.1814 (Clonakilty) 1842 – 3 Michael Linehan b.1816 (Cork) 1834 – 5 Daniel Driscoll b.1816 (Kinsale)

Apprentice: Fate of ship:

Wrecked 1842 – 3 (Lloyd ’ s Register for 1842, which covers July 1842 – June 1843). Captain Linehan documented service into January 1843 (UK M&M), while shipwreck data for that month documents the Hester running ashore on 10th January 1843 between Cape Cornwall and Land’s End, Cornwall voyaging from Cork to Southampton and Portsmouth. The crew were saved (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). Captains George Sutton and William Sutton were the third and fifth of five Clonakilty master mariner brothers. They migrated via Kinsale to Cork City in the late 1830s, joining their brothers, Nathaniel, Thomas and Abraham, as mariners in the coal trade and as shipowners (see Girl I Love ).

Additional information:

References:

Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.

HIBERNIA

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Kinsale 1824 193t; Snow

Home port:

Kinsale

Owner: Activity: Master:

W Landers

Coastal and foreign trade

1829 – 33 John Dunbar b.1793 (Dublin) 1831 – 6 John Driscoll b.1790 (Castle Townsend) 1836 – 9 George Feneran b.1808 (Kinsale)#967 1830 – 4 John Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1831 Charles Daly b.1800 (Queenstown) 1835 George Feneran b.1800 (Kinsale)#967 1837 – 8 George Clark b.1808 (Youghal)#3829 1840 John Sedgwick Savery b.1817 (Cork) 1835 John Donovan b.1807 (Kinsale)#5692 1835 John Driscoll b.1810 (Kinsale)#6826 1835 John Fleming b.1811 (Kinsale)#2949 1836 Thomas Murphy b.1811 (Passage West)

Mate:

Seaman:

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