NELSON
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Unknown 75t; Brig
Home port:
Kinsale
Owner: Activity: Master:
Unknown
Coastal trader
1820 – 6 William Roche b.1790 (Kinsale) 1820 – 3 Timothy Donovan b.1805 (Kinsale)
Apprentice: Fate of ship:
Unknown.
Additional information:
Captain William Roche would also captain the Elizabeth & Sarah .
Apprentice (future Captain) Thade Donovan took to the sea at the age of fifteen under Captain William Roche. Thade would later succeed Captain William Roche as Master of Forester in 1839. Thade’s grandson, Dr Daniel Michael Donovan (b.1877, Cork), who died 7 January 1938, was buried with his other grandfather, Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty), and family at St Joseph’s Cemetery, Cork.
References:
UK M&M; Sutton Family History.
NEPTUNE
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Sunderland 1855
534t; Barque
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
J E Pim (Cork) Foreign trade
1868 – 9 William Felkins b.1823 (Cove) 1869 – 74 John Henry Edwards b.1833 (Youghal) 1879 – 80 Patrick J Healy b.1838 (Passage, Cork) 1869 – 70 James McCabe b.1834 (Queenstown) 1871 – 3 Maurice Cogan b.1842 (Passage West) 1876 John Twohig b.1838 (Cork)
Mate:
Seaman:
1876 Nathaniel Sutton b.1855 (Cork)
Fate of ship:
Lost 12 May 1880 when she struck ice in the Gulf of St Lawrence and was abandoned by the crew. The crew were put ashore at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, on the 21 May and transferred to St John, New Brunswick (Dates are as reported in IMNCL report). Neptune was ‘one of the stoutly built hardwood barques that came from Sunderland’ (Anderson). She moved to the Port of Cork in 1868. IMNCL records present impressively broad
Additional information:
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