19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

JOHN WESLEY

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1837

169t; Brigantine

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Brown & C

Coastal and foreign trade

1838-42 George Havelock b.1805 (Guisbro) 1845 – 51 D Davis 1850 John Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1850 William Martin b.1822 (Whitehaven) 1842 Thomas Lloyd b.1821 (Limerick) Moved to the Port of Arundel in 1853 .

Mate:

Fate of ship:

Additional information:

Captain Havelock was a Yorkshire man who captained Cork ships from 1834 onward. In Yorkshire during the nineteenth century there was a large Sutton family of master mariners. However, their first name choices are sufficiently different from the Suttons of Cork that I doubt there were any close ties between the two families.

Captain William Martin previously sailed on the Cork vessels Pandora and Samuel Abbott .

References:

Lloyd’s; UK M&M.

JOSEPH

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Gloucester 1816

105t; Brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Lawrence

Coastal and foreign trade

1839 – 41 Jeremiah Chard b.1800 (Castletownsend) 1840 – 2 Thomas Prosser b.1811 (Milford) 1836 Jeremiah McCarthy b.1806 (Clonakilty)#2217 1836 – 7 Lawrence McCarthy b.1814 (Ring, Clonakilty)#2225 1836 Michael Donohue b.1816 (Passage West)#6057

Mate:

Seaman:

Fate of ship:

Unknown.

Additional information:

Captain Jeremiah Chard commenced his apprenticeship when just ten years old on Revenue Cutters on the Irish Station, where he remained for fourteen years (1810 – 24). Captain Thomas Prosser next became Master on Kangaroo and Champlain of Cork 1842 – 7. Mate Jeremiah McCarthy and Seaman Lawrence McCarthy were likely to have been part of the large Clonakilty McCarthy mariner family that included Captain Timothy McCarthy

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