19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

and brigantines in the 100 – 200t range, which offered an economy of scale (Appendix 6: Economics).

Mate Thomas Barron would later be Master of the Sutton/Reynolds brig Three Brothers . Lloyd’s; UK M&M; Bielenberg , Cork’s Industrial Revolution ; McGowan, The Ship .

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CALEDONIA

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Newfoundland 1833

105t; Brig

Home port:

Cork

Owner: Activity: Master:

Connell&, Penny&C

Foreign and coastal trade

1839 – 40 J Hartnett 1840 – 1 John Fanning b.1810 (Cork) 1841 – 3 James Roche b.1819 (Cove) 1843 – 4 Stephen Stark b.1815 (Cork)#55.855 1845 – 8 Denis Reardon b.1816 (Cork) 1845 – 8 Thomas Somerville Parker b.1811 (Passage West) 1848 – 9 T Huldy

Mate:

1844 – 6 John Harrington b.1818 (Dungarvan)

Fate of ship:

An emigrant ship during the Famine. Arrival at St John, New Brunswick, 2 July 1847. This brigantine was forty-five days out from Cork with sixty-four passengers sunder Captain Reardon. Sixteen fell ill (Appendix: Emigrant Ships). The Caledonia carried out Cork to Jamaica trade in early 1840s. Captain Stephen Stark’s BT112 information was oddly written on the same line as that of mariner #55.855, making it hard to reproduce at this time. However, it indicated him to have been captain of the Caledonia (29/490) of Cork in 1843. He obtained his Master Certificate at the Port of Cork in 1850. Captain Denis Reardon was previously Mate on Girl I Love 1842 – 5 with Captain Abraham Sutton (b.1813, Clonakilty). He would have a long relationship with the Suttons as a captain on their ships. Lloyd’s; UK M&M ; #UK Nat Arch BT112; New Brunswick Courier.

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