19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

ARRIVAL SHIP

MASTER

VOYAGE

PASSENGERS

ARRIVAL

LATER DIED

DEAD

SICK

May 21

Try Again

John Barry

41 days (Cork)

182

10

11

6

May 22

Tottenham E. Evans

47 days (Youghal) 44 days (Cork) 25 days (Galway)

228

2

4

0

Urania

Robert Mills C. Daly

200

11

55

25

May 28

Albion*

206

Jun 1

Dominica

G. Slorach H. Bowman Feneran

32 days (Cork)

254

0

7

11

Jun 11

Albion

54 days (Limerick)

189

17

2

2

Jun 16

Lord Sandon

36 days (Cork)

246

17

0

10

Jun 18

T. Handford Pandora

A. Herbert

38 days (Limerick)

155

1

0

0

July 30

W. White 50 days (New Ross)

401

12

59

12

Sept 24

Albion

C. Daly

43 days (Cork)

184

5

14

1

*Information on Albion ’s first Quebec voyage of the season, provided by the Quebec Morning Chronicle , lacked morbidity/mortality data.

The contrast in outcomes in the above two tables is quite apparent.

Samplings of the Grosse Île hospital censuses for two weeks of July 18 – 24 and August 1 – 7, 1847, provide evidence of the health crisis at that point of entry

TOTAL PATIENTS (start of week)

NEW ADMISSIONS

DISCHARGES

DEATHS

TOTAL PATIENTS (end of week)

1673 1704

652 778

184 170

197 196

1944 2116

The deaths were attributed to typhus, dysentery and smallpox (Charbonneau and Sévigny).

‘ Terrible and sad as many of their stories were, the 37,265 people who travelled from Liverpool and Cork to Quebec in 1847 represent slightly over one third of the 98,749 Irish who sailed to Canada that year and less than 2% of the over two million who emigrated during the Famine at large ’ (McMahon).

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