19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

bottomed, quite a wreck and dismasted. Several vessels which left Cork on Thursday week, and should have arrived on Sunday last, not having arrived in this port up to yesterday, are thought to be lost’. See also Girl I Love and Kangaroo ( Cork Examiner Friday 4 December 1846, reprint from Monmouthshire Merlin ). # UK Nat. Arch. BT 98/617, BT 112, BT120; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; Monmouthshire Merlin, ‘Disasters at sea’.

References:

ROSE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Sunderland 1831 107t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master: Seaman:

Reed&Co

Coastal trade

1834 – 41 John Reed b.1797 (Brixham, Devon) 1836 John Davies b.1807 (Newport)#1610 1836 Edward Sullivan b.1818 (Youghal)#17875

Fate of ship:

Unknown.

Additional information:

Reed & Co. again with an overseas captain, but maybe a relative here. Captain John Reed (b.1797, Devon) provided no maritime record after 1839 but secured his Master Certificate in 1851, at which time he gave a Cork address.

References:

# UK Nat Arch BT112 and BT120; Lloyd’s; UK M&M.

ROYAL ADELAIDE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1831

84t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Cummins

Foreign trade

1836 McGrath 1836 – 40 John Norton b.1806 (Cork)#2067

Seaman:

1834 – 5/36 David Murphy b.1817 (Queenstown)#12530

Apprentice: Fate of ship:

1833 – 5 John Ronayne b.1816 (Queenstown)

Unknown.

Additional information:

This ship traded from Cork to St Kitts.

Seaman (future Captain) David Murphy confirmed Queenstown as his birthplace in 1817 and service on Royal Adelaide just for 1834 – 5. He obtained his Master Certificate of Service in 1850 when he was the Master of Dominica of Cork.

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