19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

BROWN S

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Kinsale 1816

122t; Brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Brown & C

Coastal and foreign trade

1818 – 23 A Brown 1823 – 4 D Dawson 1824 – 38 Jeremiah Mc Carthy b.1795 (Courtmacsherry)

Fate of ship:

Unknown.

Additional information:

This brig was possibly built by George Brown of Kinsale. Under Captain McCarthy it was used for foreign and coastal trade The Brown shipbuilding brothers, William and Henry of Passage West, had ties to Kinsale and married sisters Ann and Mary Dawson of Scilly Kinsale, daughters of Dan Dawson. William married Ann on 30 Mar 1830 in Kinsale. William would later remarry to a woman also named Ann. Captain Jeremiah McCarthy’s information was quite explicit in the past in UK M&M records for Browns, Bee and Horatio , but the site currently (September 2021) fails to recognize this mariner.

References:

Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Brown family records.

CALEDONIA

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Prince Edward Island 1840

39t; Schooner

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Sutton & C, A Lawe, John Shorten

Coaster

1842 – 6 P Barron 1850 R Nichols 1850 – 1 John Cadigan b.1816 (Passage West) 1841 – 6 Thomas Barron b.1821 (Dungarvan)

Mate:

Fate of ship:

This schooner (Reg: 8377) suffered a collision and was sunk 10 November 1861 (Unseaworthy Ship Commission). This schooner was even smaller than the ships of the Kinsale fleet on which Suttons had sailed 10 – 25 years earlier and, considering the Sutton interest in the coal trade, I have wondered about the practicality and intent of this purchase. The Sutton coastal fleet would consist largely of schooners

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