Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

– (port not confirmed) sailed for St John NB from Cork 25 Apr with emigrants, arriving 3 Jun. – of Cork arrived at St John NB from Berehaven Jun with emigrants. – of London sailed for Quebec from Cork 15 Apr with emigrants. – (port unknown) sailed for Boston from Cork 15 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 23 May. – of Seaton sailed for St John NB from Cork 18 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 3 Jun 1846. – (port unknown) sailed for Boston from Cork 20 Apr with emigrants. – of New York sailed for New York from Cork 21 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 21 May. – of Sunderland arrived at Quebec from Cork 25 May with 22 passengers. – of Waterford sailed for New York from Cork 27 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 3 Jun 1846. – of Leith sailed for Boston from Cork 29 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 2 Jun. – of Dublin arrived at St John NB from Cork 19 May with emigrants. – of Galway arrived at Boston from Cork 29 Jun with emigrants. – of Liverpool arrived at St John NB from Cork 30 Jun with emigrants. – of Baltimore (Ireland) arrived at St John NB from Cork in Jul with emigrants. – (port unknown) arrived at St John NB from Cork July with emigrants. Could this vessel have been Harry King? -- of Whitby sailed for St Andrews NB from Cork 6 May with emigrants. – of Baltimore (later of Cork) arrived at St John NB from Cork 20 Sep with emigrants. – (port unknown) sailed for New York from Cork 2 Dec 1846 with emigrants.

Lord Glenelg

Pons Aelii

Brilliant

Ohio

Martha

Trident Liberty

Ganges

Alert

Edinburgh Sir James MacDonnell Bark Albion

Aulaby

Elizabeth

Harry Kitty

Aerial

Leviathan

Metoka

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Shipping News

St John voyage lengths in the A-List were extracted from a ‘Report of St John Emigration Ship Arrivals’, which appeared in the 1 Jul 1846 Cork Examiner and /or were extrapolated from other sources. While Ocean departed Cork in May with Captain Linehan for Quebec, a vessel of the same name arrived at St John NB in June: perhaps the same vessel. Marion of Cork and from Cork was described voyaging up the river to Quebec 5 Jun with passengers, all well. Shipwrecks: Brilliant of London, for Quebec from Cork, 30 days out, was wrecked 12 May near Lamaline, Newfoundland with 2 passengers lost and 153 saved. Woodland Castle (a well-known Cork vessel) abandoned, presumably after disembarking emigrants at St John (Lloyds). She provided many years of service and had early in her career been armed with cannon during the Napoleonic Wars.