Captain Robert Sutton (b.1826/29, Kinsale) and Maryanne Sexton of Kilrush (see Alexandrina Victoria ). Captain Denis Driscoll in retirement was a Cork Harbour Commissioner 1897- 1921. Seaman William Bogan would later earn his Master Certificate and captain Hemisphere Borealis , Lady Sale and Henry M Hines . IMNCL; Lloyd’s ; UK M&M; Sutton Family History; O’Riordan, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners.
References:
AMERICA
Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Prince Edward Island 1871
163t; Brigantine
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
A Sutton
Foreign trade
1874 Robert Jeffers b.1844 (Kinsale)* 1874 John Donovan b.1836 (Kinsale)* 1874 Daniel O’Connell b.1838 (Cork) * 1874 Michael McDaniel b.1834 (Kinsale) 1874 David Walsh b.1841 (Cork)* 1874 John McCarthy b.1849 (Baltimore)* 1874 Jeremiah Mahoney b.1856 (Kinsale)* 1874 John Field b.1857 (Baltimore)*
Mate:
Seaman:
Apprentice:
Fate of ship:
Lost on a voyage from Cork to St John, New Brunswick in 1874. Captain Jeffers and all six crew members (John Donovan, Daniel O’Connell, David Walsh, John McCarthy, Jeremiah Mahoney and John Field) were documented as drowned at sea on 13 April 1874, in the Voyage Report signed by the owner, Abraham Sutton, on 19 August 1874 and officially stamped on 21 August 1874 (IMNCL). 1874 North American trade. Captain Abraham Sutton b. 1813 only briefly owned this Pr ince Edward Island ship. Captain Robert Jeffers (Cert: 33.160) earned his Master Certificate in 1869. He, like other West Cork Jeffers mariners from Courtmacsherry and Kinsale, had a long and close association with the Sutton mariner family of Cork in the nineteenth century. Robert himself had been a seaman on Sutton’s Girl I Love in 1861 – 2 under Captain Nathaniel Sutton, the future Cork Harbour Master, b.1832/35 (Kinsale).
Additional information:
Mate John Donovan (b.1836/8, Kinsale/Cork, Cert: 9.931) served previously on multiple Cork ships and earned his Mate
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