19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Formby, Lancashire (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). It must have been a grim situation that she deviated from a westerly course from South Wales to Cork to a northerly course to North Wales. This ship traded between Cork and the Bristol Channel. The Hacketts had a major tanning business in Cork (Appendix 6: Tanning Industry). William B Hackett 1798- – 1866 of Cork was a Cork Harbour Commissioner and ‘the second son of Captain James Hackett, who owned a schooner trading with France and Spain’ (O’Riordan). It is of some inte rest that James Hackett of George St. is listed as the owner until ownership fell to George Sutton Jr b.1836 in 1867. Captain Benjamin Reynolds was a younger brother of Captain Nicholas Reynolds (b.1822, Cork), the brother-in-law of George Sutton Jr (b.1836) who bought this vessel. Captain Gerald L Walsh, grandson of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794), moved on after 1866 to captain the sailing ships Eliza and Louisa , which belonged to his father, Captain Jeremiah Walsh. He too would become a shipowner. Seaman Daniel Madden previously sailed on George Sutton’s ship Sister and a younger Madden, Patrick Madden (b.1860, Cork), would sail on Sutton’s Nancy McSweeney in 1890 with some of the Sutton mariners. CLIP; IMNCL; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; Monmouthshire Merlin ; Bielenberg, Cork’s Industrial Revolution , 1780 – 1880 ; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.

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JAMES MORGAN

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1823 135t; Snow

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Morgan&

Foreign trade

1824 S Paisley 1824 – 32 Richard Wallis b.1796 (Cork) 1834 – 5 J Alison

Mate:

1831 – 2 Richard Francis Cuthbert b.1812 (Cork)

Seaman:

1830 Arthur Herbert b.1812 (Cork)

Fate of ship:

25 April 1835. The James Morgan was in a collision with Montcalm (United Kingdom) in the Atlantic Ocean (39N, 47W)

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