Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

– (port unknown) sailed for Philadelphia from Cork 28 Oct with emigrants. Arrived from Glasgow via Queenstown 12 Dec with 223 Irish and 32 Scottish passengers. – ( port unknown) sailed for New York from Cardiff via Cork 13 Nov with emigrants. Arrived 11 Jan 1854. – (port unknown) sailed for New York from Cork 2 Dec with emigrants. – ( port unknown) sailed for New York from Cork 2 Dec with emigrants.

Wataga

Lalla Rookh

Pribeslaw Kossuth

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Cholera Epidemic Immigrant mortality on vessels voyaging from Liverpool and Irish ports to New York reached 3% (see also 1849 and 1854). * US shipping competition Maritime Trade. Report in Cork Examiner 19 May 1853 from the Shipping Gazette, which documented the chartering of New York and Boston vessels to ship deals and timber from a British North American port to British ports. Emigrant ships: Thomas Murdoch , Chairman of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission, reported that American ships were ‘ magnificent vessels’ and that they carried 158,000 of the 175,000 emigrants who sailed from Liverpool to the United States in 1853 . The American success was due to the quality of their vessels and the packet sailing business model with the convenience of regular scheduled sailings. Whether Murdoch should be the absolute arbiter on this topic is left to the reader. The total number of emigrants that sailed from Britain and Ireland in 1853 to the US was 230,885, and to BNA just 34,522.

1854 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants

Source 1 4 8 9 13

CANADA

A Herbert

20 Mar

New York 25 Apr 1854

emigrants

TRY AGAIN TOTTENHAM

Martin E Evans

11 Apr 25 Apr 8 May 1 Sep 7 Sep

Quebec Quebec Quebec Quebec Quebec

emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants

1 8 1 8

ST LAWRENCE Malone

passengers 1 8

CANADA

A Herbert

1 8 9

TOTTENHAM

Evans

1 8

Tottenham was wrecked 16 Oct at Woody Point, Newfoundland. All passengers and crew were rescued ( UK M&M, List of Shipwrecks-Wiki ) B-LIST Joseph Howe – of St Andrews sailed for Quebec from Cork 22 Apr with emigrants. Blanch – (port unknown) sailed for Quebec from Cork 12 May with emigrants.