19th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews

Fig. 17: Detail from the early eighteenth-century map of Ireland by Visscher with the Blackwater, which is tidal between Youghal and Cappoquin. CITIZEN

Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:

Bear River, Nova Scotia 1869

197t; Brigantine

Home port:

Youghal

Owner: Activity: Master:

Michael Fleming

Coastal trade

1879 – 81 Thomas Donovan b.1831 (Courtmacsherry)* 1881 Patrick Donovan b.1860 (Youghal) 1884 – 9 Thomas Loughlin b.1837 (Youghal)* 1891 – 5 Michael Lynch b.1833/37 (Youghal)*#

Mate:

1880-1 Patrick Donovan b.1860 (Youghal) 1884 – 9 John Loughlin b.1865 (Youghal)* 1891-4 Richard Lynch b.1859 (Youghal)* 1877 – 80 Patrick Donovan b.1860 (Youghal) 1884 – 8 Michael Lynch b.1833/37 (Youghal)* 1895 Patrick Bowler b.1870 (Youghal)#

Seaman:

Fate of ship:

‘On 25-12-1895 this 184t brigantine carrying coal was wrecked at the tip of Little Saltee. Captain Michael Lynch and one of the crew of six were lost. The lifeboat saved four. She was en route from Newport to Youghal ’ . The drowned seaman was Patrick Bowler (b.1870, Youghal) and the Cork Examiner