Tonnage/ Vessel type:
85t; Brigantine
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Hawkins
Coastal trade
1860 – 3 Jeremiah Creamer b.1834 (Kinsale)* 1863 – 84 Patrick Brown b.1812 (Aghada/Whitegate)* 1884 Edmond Brown b.1847 (Cork)*
Mate:
1880 Edmond Brown b.1847 (Cork)*
Fate of ship:
Wrecked at Queenstown in 1885: a Cork brig of 85t with a cargo of ballast. Leaving Cork for Newport she was stranded and wrecked in the harbour but probably salvaged. Captain Brown also stated in an IMNCL report, dated 12 February, that she had stranded in Cork Harbour 7 January 1885. This ship traded largely between Cork and Newport and shows quite variable reporting of ages and birth places. Captain Patrick Brown must have been a capable old seaman. He used only a mark for his name (not unique to this captain) and served on Orinoco into his 70s. *IMNCL; CLIP; UK M&M; www.irishwrecksonline.net
Additional information:
References:
ORION
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Nova Scotia 1846
130t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Harley&S
Coastal trade
1846 – 51 Thomas Davies b.1814 (St Davids) 1849 Edmond John Walsh b.1823 (Cork) 1848 – 50 P Perkins c.1856 – 7 John Griffiths b.1830 (St Dogmells) 1848 Austin Harley b.1827 (Cork) 1863 James Best b.1831 (Crosshaven)* 1856 Denis Driscoll b.1838 (Cork/Kinsale) 1863 William Long b.1844 (CrosshaVen)
Mate:
Seaman:
Fate of ship:
This ship (Reg: 8351), moved to the Port of Maryport, Cumberland in 1865 (CLIP). Captain John Griffiths served on Scott /Harley ships out of Cork, starting with the Helen Scott in 1849. His first captaincy was an exception on Sutton’s Perilla 1854 – 5, prior to the Orion .
Additional information:
Mate Austin Harley claimed to have become a ship master in 1849. He would be master of Darnley in 1853 and obtain his
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