Tonnage/ Vessel type:
163t; Brig
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Beale&Co
Foreign trade 1839 – 40 Pierce 1840 – 5 W Ellis
Apprentice: Fate of ship:
1842 – 3 George William Slorach b.1823 (Cork)
Unknown.
Additional information:
Records indicate Mediterranean and Australian trade.
James Beale (b.1798), who was married to Susana Lecky, was a partner with his brother-in-law in the Robert J Lecky & Co. Ship Repair Yard at Penrose Quay and was a Cork Harbour Commissioner 1836 – 42. It was James Beale of Cork and associates who chartered the Sirius from the St George Steam Company, and placed her under the command of Lieutenant Richard Roberts, RN, of Passage West for the first Atlantic crossing by a steamship (Appendix 6: Sirius ). Apprentice (future Captain) George William Slorach documented a voyage to Australia in this brig. He would later be a mate on the barque Dominica of Cork 1845 – 6 before becoming Master of the Dominica 1846 – 8. Lloyd’s; UK M&M; De Courcy, Ireland and the Irish in maritime history ; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.
References:
SISTER
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Prince Edward Island 1850
91t; Brigantine
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
George Sutton, Jeremiah Murphy
Coastal trade
1863 Benjamin Reynolds b.1834 (Passage West) 1864 – 70 Denis Riordan b.1816 (Cork) 1870 Jeremiah Murphy b.1814 (Crosshaven, Cork) 1867 Daniel Riordan b.1825 (Cork) 1870 John Murphy b.1850 (Crosshaven, Cork) c.1864 Daniel Madden b.1840 (Courtmacsherry) 1869 Frank Roche b.1820 (Dungarvan) 1870 Michael Anderson b.1835 (Sandy Cove) 1870 William Harrington b.1851 (Crosshaven, Cork)
Mate:
Seaman:
Apprentice: Fate of ship:
1864 – 5 Timothy Riordan b.1849 (Cork)
Unknown.
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