Fate of ship:
An emigrant ship during the Famine. Arrival at St John, New Brunswick 26 June 1847. This schooner was twenty-eight days out from Cork with sixty-two passengers (Appendix: Emigrant Ships). Sprang a leak and was beached at Dungarvan, Waterford, 17 January 1854. She was on a voyage from Newport to Cork (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). Stranded and declared a wreck 19 October 1862 (Unseaworthy Ship Commission). The latter event was further confirmed to have occurred on 19 October 1862, when the schooner was wrecked on Flat Holm, Glamorgan with loss of two lives (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki)
Additional information:
This ship sailed to Lisbon and North America.
Captain William Carroll commenced his apprenticeship at the age of thirteen on an Aberdeen vessel trading with New South Wales and the East Indies in 1824, before his service on vessels out of Calcutta. He sailed on London vessels trading with America and the West Indies before taking a mate position on Try Again of Cork in 1832. Captain John Cook commenced his apprenticeship 1840-41 at the age of sixteen on the Kinsale vessel George in coastal trade, followed by three years on a British Naval vessel. He was later Mate on Ocean in American trade during 1849 and obtained his Master Certificate at the Port of Cork in 1851, at which time he provided a Sunday’s Well address.
References
Lloyd’s ; UK M&M; New Brunswick Courier .
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Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Prince Edward Island 1838
201/186t; Brigantine
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Dawson &
Coastal and transatlantic trade
1845 – 7 John Leonard b.1815 (Kinsale) 1848 – 51 Jeremiah Casey b.1820 (Glandore) 1845 Philip McDaniel b.1818 (Youghal)
Mate:
Fate of ship:
Unknown.
Additional information:
This ship voyaged to New Brunswick and Boston.
Captain John Leonard subsequently appears in Lloyd’s to replace Captain Patrick Leonard (b.1828, Kinsale) as captain of the Enterprize in 1847 while becoming captain of the Atlantic
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