PART III CATALOGUE OF CORK-BASED EMIGRANT SHIPS 1815-60
ALBION Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
New Brunswick 1824
305t Snow
Cork
Home port:
Hargrave
Owner: Activity: Master:
Emigrant years: 1824, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 1824 William Stewart b.1775 (Cove) 1825 John Mills b. 1797 (N Shields) 1827 Abel Isaac b. 1801 (Carmarthen) 1825 John Mills b.1797 (N Shields) 1833 Thomas Isaac (died when vessel capsized)
Mate:
Seaman: Fate of ship:
Voyaged to Quebec, Halifax, and New York Completed a passage from Cork to St John New Brunswick of just fifteen days in April 1830. Sank 3 May 1833. Captain Stewart was previously captain of Sir James Kempt. Vessel foundered 2 May 1833 under Captain Isaac en-route to Quebec at Lat 47.5/Long 33.3. Fifteen persons transferred to the rescue vessel, Neptune of Newry, late on 2 May. The vessel suddenly and unexpectedly capsized and sank at dawn 3 May with loss of 15 lives. Captain Abel Isaac survived. Thomas Isaac, probable the Mate and a brother to Abel Isaacs, drowned. Abel moved to New Brunswick, where he became master of vessels out of St Andrews and St John, NB, returning to Wexford in 1851. Ships List, Lloyds, UK M&M, Cove Ship News, List of Shipwrecks-Wiki
Additional information:
References:
ALBION Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Nova Scotia 1824
249t Brig
Cork
Home port:
Hickson
Owner: Activity: Master:
Emigrant years: 1835
1835 W Paddon
Mate: Seaman: Fate of ship:
Voyaged to Quebec
Additional information: References:
Ships List, Lloyds
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