PART III CATALOGUE OF CORK-BASED EMIGRANT SHIPS 1815-60
Fig. 62.
William Henry Deane Hargrave - Particulars of Service
HEBE Place and date built: Tonnage/ Vessel type:
Bjrnbg 1847 549t Bark
Cork
Home port:
McMullen
Owner: Activity: Master:
Emigrant years: 1850, 51
1850 William Henry Deane Hargrave b.1827 (Cork) 1850 Joshua Hargrave b.1829 (Ballynoe, Cork)
Mate:
Seaman: Fate of ship:
Voyaged to Boston, New York and Quebec
Captain William Deane Hargrave apprenticed on Bridgetown and John Francis 1843-5 before serving as Mate on Bridgetown and England (all of Cork) 1845-6. He captained the Pallas of Cork 1847-9. Sailed newly married on the Hebe to Australia from Queenstown in February 1853, where he used irons to restrain crew members, who wanted to go gold-digging. Proceeding to Burma to pick up a timber cargo, he died during the voyage from a fever and was buried in Burma on 24 October 1853. His father, Abraham Hargrave married to Sarah Deane, designed the Cork Custom House.
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