Tonnage/ Vessel type:
809t; Barque
Home port:
Cork
Owner: Activity: Master:
J E Pimm
Foreign trade
1851 – 7 Arthur Herbert b.1812 (Cork/Kerry) 1869 – 77 William Simmons b.1836 (Bristol)* 1881 – 2 John Spillane b.1819 (Crosshaven)* 1854 – 5 Timothy McCarthy b.1831 (Passage West) 1860 Benjamin V Reynolds b.1834 (Passage West) 1862 – 4 William Simmons b.1836 (Bristol) 1869 Jeremiah Murphy b.1832 (Carrigaline) 1873 Jeremiah McCarthy b.1842 (Kinsale) 1852 Timothy McCarthy b.1831 (Passage West) 1854 – 5 William Mullins b.1834 (Cork) 1855 – 6 Benjamin V Reynolds b.1834 (Passage West) 1859 Samuel Button b.1832 (Cottingham, York) 1860 John Smiddy b.1835 (Youghal) 1860 – 1 Jeremiah Murphy b.1832 (Carrigaline) 1865 – 7 Maurice Cogan b.1842 (Passage West) 1866 Thomas McCarthy b.1845 (Cork) 1877 Philip Kidney b.1855 (Crosshaven)* 1877 Philip Punch b.1855 (Crosshaven)* 1877 Thomas Bride b.1854 (Upper Aghada) 1882 Augustine Whelan b.1857 (Dungarvan)* 1853 Thomas Crofts Clarke b.1839(Passage, Cork) 1853 – 5 William Simmons b.1836 (Bristol) 1860 – 3 Arthur Herbert Sargent b.1846 (Cork)
Mate:
Seaman:
Apprentice:
Fate of ship:
Unknown.
Additional information:
James Edwin Pimm JP, 1829 – 86, born into a Quaker family, was a timber merchant who owned a fleet of ships in the North American timber trade. Safety at sea depends on many factors and crew size was delineated for this barque in an 1877 Voyage Agreement: ‘The crew will consist of seventeen hands all told all above that number must be considered as extra’ ( Appendix 6: Economics and Safety). Captain Arthur Herbert documented his birthplace as Cork on his Mate’s papers but indicated Waterville Kerry on his Master Mariner Competency papers, 28 Dec 1857. Mate Benjamin Reynolds was a younger brother of Captain Nicholas Reynolds (b.1822, Cork), who was a son-in-law of Captain George Sutton (b.1804, Clonakilty). Benjamin would earn his Master Certificate in 1861 and marry Mary Catherine Walsh, granddaughter of Captain Nathaniel Sutton (b.1794,
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