19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Apprentice (future Captain) Denis Reardon was to have a long sailing association with the Suttons. # UK Nat. Arch. BT98/618, BT 112, BT 120; Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Passage West Maritime Museum: 1835 Survey Report.

References:

WILLIAM LARGE

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Cork 1839 176t; Brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Large&C

Foreign trade

1842 – 4 Henry Hobbs b.1804 (Cork) 1842 – 8 Charles Pennington b.1810 (London) 1849 – 51 James Armytage Buttery b.1822 (Southwark) 1850 – 4 Philip Horatio Sommerville b.1823 (Castletownsend) 1844 – 5 Francis Raynes b.1820 (Cork) 1850 Richard Sommerville b.1826 (Castletownsend) 1852 John Patterson b.1830 (Passage West)

Mate:

Seaman:

1839 – 40 Francis Raynes b.1820 (Cork) 1842 – 3 Patrick Moran b.1815 (Slade, Wexford)

Fate of ship:

This barque was driven ashore and wrecked in a hurricane in Barbadoes, 25 August 1855. She was re-floated 11September (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki). Notable is that this same barque had been described in her earli er years as a brig (Lloyd’s). The New City of Cork was caught in the same hurricane.

Additional information:

Trade included the West Indies.

This ship was named for William Large 1782 – 1870, a Cork Huguenot merchant, Trustee of the Cork Ship Owners Society and a Cork Harbour Commissioner. Captain Henry Hobbs documented trade with Jamaica. He was previously Master of Hargrave’s 156t brig Duke of Clarence 1836 – 8 in Jamaica trade and would remain in Cork to West Indies trade until 1846. Captain Charles Pennington was master of Cork ships from 1837 – 52. While the William Large took him to the West Indies, he would next captain the Seymour barque Mozambique in Cape Horn trade 1848 – 52. Captain Sommerville previously apprenticed on Fanny Anne Garrequis of Cork 1836 – 7 and then sailed on vessels out of New York, China and Hong Kong, before accepting captaincy of vessels out of Lydney, Gloucestershire, on the Severn, in the mid-1840s.

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