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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