Additional information:
North America and West Indies (Jamaica) trade. Port of Registration flipped between Cork and Liverpool. Another vessel in the large Cork Scott fleet. Captain William Errington apprenticed at thirteen years old on a South Shields Brig in Quebec trade 1820 – 4. Cork Harbour, as the major British provisioning port in the early nineteenth century for long westerly voyages, offered many mariner opportunities on ships from remote ports. He became a mate on the 300t barque Champlain of Cork 1824 – 7 (some question of exactitude of those dates). Following Bob Logic he would next be Master of the brig Swan of Cork 1837 – 41.
References:
#UK Nat Arch BT120; Lloyd’s; UK M&M.
BRIDGETOWN
Place and date built: Tonnage:/ Vessel type
Nova Scotia 1836
599t; Barque
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
Carroll & C
Foreign trade
1841 – 2 William Carroll b.1814 (Cove) 1844 – 5 A. Deaves 1839 – 48 James Betty b.1816 (Dublin) 1848 – 50 John Mills b.1814 (Cork)
Mate:
1845 – 6 William Henry Deave Hargrave b.1827 (Cork) 1841 John Ronayne b.1816 (Queenstown) 1845 William Henry Deave Hargrave b.1827 (Cork) 1849 Robert Merrick b.1827 (Cork) 1843 – 4 William Henry Deave Hargrave b.1827 (Cork) 1843 – 7 Thomas Clements b.1829 (Cove) Wrecked, 4 August 1850, at Clam Cove near Cape Race, Newfoundland, while voyaging from Liverpool to Quebec City. Three lives lost (list of Shipwrecks - Wiki). She disappeared from Lloyd’s register at this time. One of the larger vessels listed. Trading with British America during the 1840s and with New Orleans under Captain Mills 1848 – 50. The Cork Carrolls were Quakers with close ties with Cork City and Youghal. While initially much into the timber trade, they diversified into many other imports and exports and into shipping (see the Carroll sloop Industry).
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Additional information:
The mercantile Hargraves were also Quakers and related to the Carrolls. Jeanette Hargrave, daughter of Joshua Hargrave
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