Activity: Master:
Coastal trade
1839 – 40 Thomas Balley b.1804 (Bideford) 1841 – 3 J Wallis 1854 – 5 John Griffiths b.1830 (St Dogmells) 1856 – 64 William Shea b.1824 (Cork) 1860 – 5 John Bease b.1830 (Clonakilty) 1856 – 7 John Shea b.1837 (Wexford) 1859 – 60 Randel McCarthy b.1834 (Scilly, Kinsale) 1864 John Hefferan b.1828 (Dungarvan)* 1858 – 9 Jeremiah McCarthy b.1842 (Kinsale) 1863 – 4 Daniel Looney b.1839 Cork)
Mate:
Seamen:
Fate of ship:
Unknown
Additional information:
Spelled Parilla in Lloyd’s 1841– 2 but Perilla in CLIP when owned by Sutton. Both sources describe this brigantine built on Prince Edward Island in 1840.
Captain Balley, who documented Russian trade in 1840, would next move to Fortune of Cork.
Captain William Shea continued to serve on Sutton ships in the 1860s and 70s and relieved the seventy-six-year-old Captain John Twohig (b.1804, Kinsale) on Sutton’s Marco Polo in 1880. Captain John Bease would next captain Abraham Sutton’s Harriet 1865 – 6; retiring from that post prior to her shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina in 1867, only to be shipwrecked later when George Sutton Junior’s barque Mary Anne foundered in 1873. He survived and replaced his lost Master Certificate in 1874. CLIP indicates continued operation of Perilla until 1878. *IMNCL; CLIP; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Anderson, Sailing Ships of Ireland.
References:
PERO
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Sunderland 1823
225t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Scott&Son
Foreign trade
1845 Thomas Meredith b.1798 (Chelsea, Middlesex) 1848 – 55 Henry Wheeler b.1820 (Bandon)
Mate:
1848 John Cook b.1823 (Bandon)
Fate of ship:
Unknown
Additional information:
This ship was trading between Cork and Boston 1849 – 52.
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