in his garden, near the old Sutton Pier, looking out at Ring Harbour. He wore a pullover with a Deasy company logo and we chatted about the Ring of old and his experience in the sandlighter business, which he took over from his father in 1953. He could typically earn 2 pounds and 18 shillings for removing 18 tons of sand from the estuary for use by Dunmanway farmers. He commented that it could be back-breaking work.
Scott Shipping
( Blue Jacket, Brisk )
James Scott’s sons, George and Philip Scott, founded Messrs. Scott & Co of Queenstown in 1835 which was one of the most successful Cork shipping firms in the nineteenth century. They owned many larger sailing ships up until the 1850s, which they sold in the 1860s to concentrate on smaller coastal vessels (see Blue Jacket ). They were engaged in the transportation of emigrants to Canada, America and Australia in the late 1840s and early 1850s (see Tottenham for Famine emigration data on that ship). Their share of the registered shipping tonnage of the Port of Cork in 1855, at approximately 6000 tons, exceeded 10% of the total at that time (O’Riordan 2014).
Shipbuilding, Canadian Maritime Provinces and Quebec
( Zorilda )
A driving force in the research for the Section 4 Catalogue of sailing ships was investigation of the origins of Cork sailing ships in the nineteenth century. Canada accounted for almost half of the catalogued vessels, with minimal representation at the start of the century and an ever- increasing percentage as the century progressed.
Shipowners
( T. Crowley )
It is puzzling how individuals in families such as the Scotts or Suttons of Cork could raise the capital to own many ships. Review of the ownership of the T Crowley explains this. She was registered in Cork in August 1877 as the first unit of the last Kinsale merchant sail fleet. In common with practice elsewhere, her shareholding was divided in 1:64 parts locally as follows.
SHAREHOLDERS
16 Shares – George Newman, Surgeon
8 Shares – Robert Heard, Landowner
8 Shares – Henry Daunt, Gentleman
8 Shares – Benjamin Popham, Bank Manager
8 Shares – Robert Acton, Merchant
8 Shares – Edward Stanley, Merchant
8 Shares – Thomas Crowley, Merchant/Man. Owner
This division of ownership demonstrates that the owner, Thomas Crowley, did not need to hold a majority share and shows prudent risk management. The owner was effectively the manager of the ship. Later Cork shipping records came to delineate a manager rather than an
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