Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Hardy&
Foreign trade
1844 Joseph Barrett b.1816 (St Mawes) 1844 – 50 Richard Francis Cuthbert b.1812 (Cork) 1861 John Shea b.1819 (Passage West) 1844 – 5 Nicholas Reynolds b.1822 (Cork) 1845 William Tickle b.1828 (Gateshead) 1848 David Manning b.1814 (London) 1851 William Dempsey b.1819 (Dublin) 1851 – 2 George Clarke b.1828 (Belfast) 1854 – 6 John Murphy b.1827 (Cork) 1861 John Donovan b.1823 (Clonakilty) 1850 – 1 John Hegarty b.1828 (Queenstown) 1856 – 8 Thomas Crofts Clarke b.1839 (Passage West) 1860 John Brien b.1838 (Passage West) 1844 – 6 Frederick Wherland b.1829 (Cork) 1845 – 6 Charles McDowell b.1832 (Cork) 1854 Samuel Button b.1832 (Cottingham, Yorks) 1860 Patrick Donovan b.1841 (Cork) This barque capsized at Queenstown, Co Cork, 6 September 1856. She was righted the next day (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). Subsequently she foundered. Captain John Shea (b.1819, Passage West) renewed lost mariner papers stating: ‘ I am a Master Mariner and have had a Certificate accordingly but lost same in my last ship the Liffey having been forced to abandon [her] while in a sinking state on the 14 Feb 1861’. Mate John Donovan, on replacing his missing papers, provided complementary information on the sinking. He would captain Mary Anne of Cork 1863 – 7. St Mawes is located on the south coast of Cornwall. This ship was involved in West Indies trade in 1840s. The Cork Hardys were Huguenot merchants and shipowners much involved in West Indies trade (see Simeon Hardy and Glanmire ). Captain Joseph Barrett was previously Master on Joseph Wheeler’s New City of Cork and would later be master of Hardy’s Glanmire 1846 – 50. Mate (future Captain) Nicholas Reynolds sailed on many Cork ships and would become a son-in-law to George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty) with his marriage to Catherine Sutton on 7 Jan 1849 at St Pat’s, Cork.
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