References:
Lloyd’s; UK M&M; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.
WILLIAM PENN
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Southampton 1816
103t; Schooner Youghal, Cork
Home port:
Owner: Activity: Master:
Harvey&
Foreign trade
1820 – 39 Benjamin Hughes b.1784 (Milford)#1446 1839 – 41 J Evans 1842 Josiah Hughes b.1818 (Youghal) 1840 – 7 Andrew Shea b.1810 (Youghal) 1848 – 9 P Coffee 1841 – 2 John Sheppard b.1821 (Limerick) 1831 – 4 Robert Mills b.1817 (Cork) 1832 – 3 David Murphy b.1817 (Queenstown) 1833 – 7 Josiah Hughes b.1818 (Youghal) 1844 Robert Nicholls b.1824 (Fermoy) 1847 Robert Mills b. 1817 (Cork)
Mate:
Apprentice:
Fate of ship:
This schooner ran aground on the Jordan Flats in Liverpool Bay. She was re-floated but was wrecked on the Burbo Bank, with the loss of three of her five crew, 10 March 1849. She was on a voyage from Liverpool to Youghal, Co Cork (List of Shipwrecks - Wiki).
Additional information:
This ship traded in the Baltic in 1831 – 4.
The Harveys were a Cork Quaker family, engaged in the importation of timber and of staves for coopering from the Baltic and Canada (Appendix 6: Coopering). The ownership a ship named William Penn by the Quaker Harveys and her connections to Youghal (a Quaker centre) were not just chance. Sir William Penn, founder of Philadelphia and owner of huge tracts of land in both the New World and Ireland, was a Quaker and visited Ireland in 1669 – 70, staying with William Morris, a fellow Quaker, at Castle Salem, Rosscarbery, Co Cork (Appendix 6: Pennsylvania).
Captain Benjamin Hughes was a likely father or uncle to apprentice Josiah Hughes.
Apprentice Josiah Hughes would obtain his Master Certificate of Service in 1851 and move as mate to a steamship, Ebenezer Pike’s Pelican of Cork in 1852.
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