KINGSTON
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
New Brunswick 1836
130t; Brigantine
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Deaves &c, W Penny
Coastal trade
1843 John Small b.1783 (Cork)#13.078 1843 – 8 Benjamin Matson b.1816 (Cork) 1849 Edward Sullivan b.1822 (Cork) 1850 – 2 Charles Fortune b.1812 (Wexford) 1853 John Shea b.1819 (Passage West) 1854 – 5 Michael Linehan b.1816 (Cork) 1842 Francis Raynes b.1820 (Cork) 1843 Benjamin Matson b.1816 (Cork) c.1846 John Matson b.1822 (Cork) 1855 Michael Keane b.1824 (Cork) 1841 John Ronayne b.1819 (Rostellan) 1843 John Matson b.1822 (Cork)#47208
Mate:
Seaman:
Apprentice: Fate of ship:
1840 – 3 Patrick Neill b.1822 (Cork)
An emigrant ship during the Famine. Arrival at St John, New Brunswick 22 July1847. This brigantine was forty-seven days out from Cork under Captain Matson with sixty-eight passengers (Appendix: Emigrant Ships). Moved to the Port of Cardiff in1861 (CLIP). This ship (Reg: 8433) was stranded and wrecked 7 June 1862 (Unseaworthy Ship Commission). On 7 June 1862, she was driven ashore and wrecked at Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Her crew were saved (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). Captain John Small was aged 60 years when Master of Kingston. Captain Benjamin Matson served on many Cork ships and was likely to have been a brother of Mate (future Captain) John Matson (see Joseph Wheeler ). Captain Michael Linehan served previously as Mate and Master on William Brown and Hester of Cork 1841 – 3. Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty) had been a prior Master on both of those Brown/Wallis owned vessels. Apprentice Patrick Neill would later be Captain of George Sutton’s Kaloolah 1864 – 73. # UK Nat Arch BT112, #BT112/65; Lloyd’s; UK M&M ; New Brunswick Courier.
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