younger and future Captain John Shea (b.1837, Wexford) was still serving as a seaman on Girl I Love 1858-62.
Captain Patrick Collins, who survived this wrecking was, almost certainly, the same Patrick Collins who would be less fortunate in the demise of Jeremiah Clancy’s White Eagle of Cork at Penarth in 1881.
References:
*IMNCL; Lloyds; UK M&M.
ALTHEA
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
St John, New Brunswick 1864
376t; Brig
Home port:
Youghal
Owner: Activity: Master:
Richard Farrell
Foreign and coastal trade
1872 William Kennedy b.1833 (Passage, Waterford)* 1874 – 5 Michael H. Sheehan b.1836 (Youghal)* 1876 – 87 Peter Farrell b.1842 (Youghal)*
Mate:
1876 John McCarthy b.1849 (Youghal)* 1879 – 81 Michael Lynch b.1834 (Youghal)* 1883 Henry Evans b.1842 (Youghal)* 1886 Michael Whelan b.1848 (Dungarvan)* 1887 Thomas O’Grady b.1852 (Dungarvan)* 1872 – 6 Michael Glavin b.1846 (Youghal)* 1886 – 7 John Mathias b.1867 (Ballincurra)
Seaman:
Fate of ship:
Abandoned at Yarmouth 17 November 1887 (IMNCL). Declared unseaworthy (MNL closures, 1888) Mainly traded between Youghal and North America, particularly St John and Quebec. Richard Farrell was an important Youghal merchant and shipowner in the late nineteenth century. He was also a timber merchant and owned a sawmill in Youghal. Boatswain Michael Lynch served in that capacity for the more demanding transatlantic voyages and is included in the Mate category for simplicity. Mate Henry Evans was Boatswain in 1883. Mate Michael Whelan on applying for a certificate in 1874 confessed to having sailed under the assumed name of George Thompson (after deserting ship at Havana). The Whelans of Dungarvan were a large mariner family with ties to the Suttons of Cork.
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