19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

ROBERT LAWE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1837

135/118t; Brigantine

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Brown & C

Coastal trade

1837 – 9 Abraham Sutton b.1813 (Clonakilty)#17872 1837 John Dawson b.1815 (Kinsale)#1591 1839 – 49 Nathaniel Sutton b.1794 (Clonakilty)#17877 1847 – 8 William Garde b.1803 (near Cloyne) 1850 – 2 Emanuel Murray b.1818 (Kinsale) 1853 – 7 William Dempsey b.1809 (Kinsale) 1839 – 42 John Cadigan b.1816 (Passage West) 1848 John Bible Jackson b.1826 (Queenstown) 1850 – 1 David Jarrold b.1821 (Woodbridge, Suffolk) 1837 Patrick Donovan b.1817 (Kinsale)#7104 1839 Michael McCarthy b.1814 (Dungarvan)#2299 1839 Callahan McCarthy b.1818 (Youghal)#2300 1842 Nicholas Young b.1809 (Baltimore) 1839 – 40 Thomas Driscoll b.1826 (Cork) 1840 – 4 Robert Sutton b.1826/1829 (Kinsale)

Mate:

Seaman:

Apprentice:

1835 – 6 Daniel Driscoll b.1816 (Kinsale) 1836 – 42 Denis Driscoll b.1822 (Kinsale)

Fate of ship:

The London Times, 10 Apr 1849 documented the Robert Lawe in a collision with a submerged wreck approaching Lynn Harbour on 5 Apr 1849, arriving ‘very leaky’ and ‘Sutton was believed to be captain’. The deat h of Captain Nathaniel Sutton may have been in association with this event. The ship survived. Robert Lawe was a coal merchant on King St Cork, a trustee of the Cork Shipowners Society and a Cork Harbour Commissioner 1823 – 4 and 1832 – 7. Mate John Cadigan has dates that may be inaccurate. Seaman Patrick Donovan who appears to have a fishing background, served also on Scilly Girl and Nancy Brown in 1837. Apprentices Daniel Driscoll and Denis Driscoll also seem to have date inaccuracies in UK M&M records. They were possibly brothers. Apprentice Denis Driscoll would later own and captain the Rebecca of Cork. Captain Nathaniel Sutton survived a particularly rough Irish Sea crossing at the end of November 1846 documented by a Newport journalist – ‘Captain Sutton of the Robert Lawe reports that when 30 miles southeast by south, from Cork to this port, he saw the smack Charlotte of Guernsey, copper-

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