PART III CATALOGUE OF CORK-BASED EMIGRANT SHIPS 1815-60
CHAPTER 1.
CATALOGUE
It’s appropriate that this Catalogue of Cork Emigrant Vessels starts with Abeona, captained, and owned by James Attridge b.1805, who became one of the most renowned emigration- associated sea captains of his time. His subsequent command was the bark Jeanie Johnston of Tralee, which made sixteen transits of the Atlantic between 1848 and 1855 carrying 2,500 passengers without disease-associated loss of life. Most voyages with Captain Attridge on Jeanie Johnston were accompanied by a ship doctor and one passage commenced out from Cork for Quebec on 18 May 1852. This Catalogue provides a useful listing of Cork emigrant ships 1815-60. Owners are usually written as found in source material. I have attached related service records of many of the master mariners, courtesy of ancestry.com, for no particular research intent, but for their fascinating and often interlinking lives, and to delight the curious reader. UK Masters and Mates, 1850-1927 records can be further accessed online through ancestry.com. Demographics of earlier mariners were sometimes found in records at the UK National Archives, or in an earlier work, “19 th Century Cork Sutton Mariners, Sailing Ships and Crews”.
ABEONA Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Nova Scotia 1838
137t Brig
Cork
Home port:
Captain & C
Owner: Activity: Master:
Emigrant years: 1847
1847 James Attridge b.1805 (Castletownsend)
Mate: Seaman: Fate of ship:
Voyaged to St John NB
The Attridge family included mariners and ship owners. Captain James Attridge, future captain of Jeanie Johnston, became the Harbour Master of Passage West on retirement. Lloyds, Cove Ship News, UK M&M, “Irish Emigration to New England through the Port of St John New Brunswick”
Additional information:
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