Greetings List - I've been researching ships that left Cornwall ports heading for New York, USA harbor between 1820 and 1850. Many have been transcribed and are on my Boneplace website [scroll down to the 3rd link], others are still waiting in the wing [those marked * have been transcribed]. Knowing half a thimblefull about boats thought the following might be of interest. Were ships retrofitted for a different class of ship? All listed are on Ancestry.com except for the first listing (or perhaps I missed it): Royal Adelaide - Bark - arrived at New York (USA) Harbor 14 June 1839, Thos Jamison Captain *Royal Adelaide - Bark - arrived at New York (USA) Harbor 21 April 1840, Joseph Vivian Captain *Royal Adelaide - Bark - arrived at New York (USA) Harbor 25 May 1841, J. Lentz Captain *Royal Adelaide - Ship - arrived at New York (USA) Harbor 11 May 1836, Joseph Vivian Jr, Captain Royal Adelaide - Ship - arrived at New York (USA) Harbor 8 May 1837, Joseph Vivian Captain This list of ships was obtained from "Alphabetical Listing of Passenger Ships Arriving in New York Harbor, 1820-1850" along with clues of ships names appearing in the "West Briton" newspaper. Cheers Rita Bone Kopp OPC St Stephen in Brannel and St Mewan http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~boneplace/index.html Past Co-transcriber and current webmaster for West Briton newspaper http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/ Co-transcriber and webmaster for Bible Christen Magazine http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~biblechristianmag/title.html Transcriber for the CRO Tithes indexing project and OPC Database > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:25:51 +1000 > From: "bedmonds" <beverley@yourisp.com.au> > Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Fatal Wreck off Margate & list of those who > died. ( 1850 ) > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <00e301cabb6b$eb539a60$0201010a@beverlyf387673> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Passing this on from the Lancashire List > > Cornwall family recorded > Not my families. > > Bev >> >> List-Id: <lancsgen.rootsweb.com> >> X-Loop: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com >> X-Member: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com >> >>>Extracts from a report in The Era ( London, England ), Sunday, April 7, >>>1850; Issue 602. >>> >>>AWFUL AND FATAL WRECK OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE STEAMER. >>>We regret exceedingly to announce one of the most melancholy casualties >>>at >>>sea which has occurred upon our coast for some years. The City of Dublin >>>Steam-packet Company's ship, Royal Adelaide, Captain John BATTY, plying >>>between the ports of Cork and London, left the former city on Wednesday >>>afternoon, the 27th ult., with a full cargo of goods and passengers, >>>touched off Plymouth on Thursday evening, left that port for London on >>>Friday >>>morning at three o'clock, and was totally lost on the Tongue Sand, off >>>Margate, at >>>eleven o'clock last Saturday night, when every soul on board perished. >>> >>>The following return of the names of the crew of the Royal Adelaide was >>>received on Thursday, by the secretary of the company from Liverpool, to >>>which port it appears, nearly the whole of them belonged.William GOWER, >>>chief mate ; George NORTH, second mate; William SCOTT, third mate ; >>>William REILLY, chief engineer ; William CROOK, second engineer; >>>Charles COCKLAND, fireman; John DELANY, fireman; Thomas WILLIAMS, >>>fireman; James MOORE, fireman; John DOYLE, fireman; William BELLIS, >>>fireman; >>>Patrick CAREY, coal-trimmer; Michael WOOLFE, coal-trimmer; William >>>SEAGAR, >>>sailor; James NEICE, sailor; John STAMPER, sailor; Robert TOZER, sailor; >>>Joseph >>>MORGAN, sailor; Ambrose TURNER, carpenter; Thomas BUTLER, boy; >>>Henry HILLIER, steward; and Sarah GARETTY, stewardess. >>> >>>The Royal Adelaide was commanded by Captain John BATTY, of Cork, who has >>>been in the service of the Dublin Steam-packet Company upwards of twenty >>>years, during a great portion of which he has commanded ships on the >>>London and Dublin and London and Cork stations. He was considered one of >>>the >>>most experienced sailors in the service, and was besides a man of no >>>ordinary >>>attainments. The sole command of his ship devolved upon him until he >>>arrived off Gravesend, when the river pilot took charge. Captain BATTY >>>was >>>universally beloved and respected, and his fate is deeply regretted. He >>>has left a >>>family of young children. His wife died suddenly about six months ago. >>> >>>Fourteen passengers boarded at Plymouth at 3.30 a.m. on Friday morning, >>>bound for London, viz :- >>>Cabin Passengers:- Mr & Mrs PAYNE and two children, Mrs HURST, Miss >>>WETTERS, and Mr TUCKER, a young sailor, who was going to London to >>>join a ship bound for New Zealand. >>>The deck passengers from Plymouth were a woman named WELSH and three >>>children, a an named SQUIRES, about twenty-five years of age, and two >>>other passengers named respectively MUNRO and THOMPSON. >>> >>>Mr PAYNE was a surgeon, who resided at Albany-place, Plymouth. Mrs. Mary >>>Anne HURST was the wife of a coachman in a gentleman's family residing >>>on >>>the Surrey side of the river; she was married only at Christmas, and had >>>been >>>on a visit to relations in Lostwithiel, with her sister Miss WETTER. >>>Ann WELSH aged 35,of 16, Mulberry-street, Devonport , had 3 children >>>with >>>her aged 14, 9 & 6, and had left a son aged 17 who is employed at the >>>ship-building-yard of Mr BANKS, Frank's-quarry, Mount Edgecombe. >>>Ann WELSH took her furniture and was going to join her husband, John >>>WELSH, a boatswain in the Royal Navy, on board a man-of-war at Woolwich. >>> >>>The following list of the passenger's was received by Mr HARTLEY, the >>>manager of the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, on Friday >>>morning, from the agent at Cork. >>>Ally HICKEY and N. LEARY, BATTERBY, P. and Ann SULLIVAN ; LEARYS ( wife >>>and child ); C. KEANE, P. DELANE and boy, R. REILY, E. HAMILTON, >>>M.CREED. >>>J. KEEFE, E. WALL and wife; C. DEVANE, D. DALY, HOWLEY and COLLINS, >>>M. DAY, one child; C. BUCKLEY, Mary ROACHE, B. MURPHY, SULLIVAN >>>( E, N, & J. ) E. BUTTLER, M. YOUNG; J. MEAGON, wife and two children; >>>Biddy HOLAN and 2 children. HURT, SULLIVAN, and 2 children; Andy >>>BARRETT, >>>T. MURPHY, J. MURPHY. Julia MURPHY, one party; Alice MURPHY and 3 >>>children, BARRETT, MADEGAN, and COLLINS; Ellen REARDON, J. APERN, >>>Jude KELLY, one party; J. GRAHAM and daughter; M. LORDEN, Ellen LEARY, >>>UNDERGAR, WALSH, HOGAN and HAYES; E. and M. ROYMAYNE; BOYLE >>>and sister; Abraham BOYLE, Will BOYLE, one party; E. KELEHUR and child; >>>D. >>>COLEMAN, D. COLEMAN, jun., Jane HURLEY, Ellen DALY, C. CRONIN, >>>one party; E. CROWLEY, M. McCARTHY, S. SINCOCKS and child; Hannah >>>LAHIVE, B. SHEA and KELLY; M. BRIEN, J. HOGAN, J. HARRINGTON, >>>Mary PUCKL, Mary DRISCOLL, Mary COWLEY, and 3 small children, one party; >>>four adults ( no names given ) John FITZPATRICK, Mary PICKET and child; >>>C. SULLIVAN ( booked and not gone ) REGAN and child, one adult >>>(name not given ) M MADIGAN, PUCKLE, J. MARONY, M. SHAUGHNESSEY, D. >>>SHEHAN, one party; KAUFIL, J. KAUFIL, QUICK, one party; SCALON, C. >>>WILLIAMS, A. >>>SWEET, MAGRATH, J. GREEN, M. HENESSY, MACKIN, WALSH, J. BUCKLEY, Sally >>>FINNEEN, DWYER, M. CORBOT, NOONAN, Mary LEARY, FAHY, C. D. BRIEN, >>>one child, a soldier named BENNETT, J. SULLIVAN, M. BARRY, HERN and >>>HOWGAN, >>>MURPHY, COLLINS, HINGELEY, FLANNAGAN, 2 SULLIVAN's, COUGHLAN, >>>REARDON, McCARTHY, MELLISH, F. GLYNN, TWOOMY, HEALY, WELDON >>>and wife, J. SHAUGHNESSY, MADIGAN, SULLIVAN, HEALY, 2 adults and 3 boys >>>( no names ) >>>The only cabin passenger for London was Mr O'CALLAGHAN, who said he >>>might get out at Plymouth. >>> >>>There were 144 adults from Cork; 23 children from Cork, 14 passengers >>>from Plymouth, 25 crew, >>>including Captain Mr. J. BATTY, a total of 206, who perished on board >>>this steamer, off Margate.