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Phoenix (1851) a general history

Phoenix 1851-1876?

Built at St Johns, New Brunswick: Official No. 25798: Code Letters PHLT: hackmetack, birch & oak wood  ship; 906g; 770g; 148.7 x 30.1 x 21.4; new topsides & some repairs 1864; some repairs 1867; caulked & re-metalled in spring of 1875.

Owners: by 1853 J Toole, Liverpool; 1855 Magee & Co, Liverpool; 1860 MI Wilson & Co, Liverpool; 1865 George Fleming (London) Liverpool; 1867-72 William Henry, Liverpool; by 1874-76 William Gray, West Hartlepool.

Masters: 1853-54 C Semple; 1855-59 William Moppett; 1860 L Johnson; 1861-62 R Brown; 1863-66 Edward Hall Capper (b. 1839 London); 1867-75 Cullen.

Voyages: January 1856 arrived Sydney from Liverpool with 104 passengers; 1857 Liverpool for New Orleans; 1858 Liverpool for Australia; 1869 Liverpool for South America.

12 January 1876 advertised to be auctioned at Falmouth. She may not have sold in one piece as on 22 January 1876 another auction at Falmouth was for the hull & materials of a ship Phoenix which was probably the same vessel. Not on the British Register as Phoenix by 1878.

Crew 1855/56: Bain, Donald, sailmaker, 29; Blake, Thomas, cook, 52; Breakey, Daniel, seaman, 29; Burns, George, seaman, 26; Byrne, Thomas, steward, 22; Callen, Richard, passengers’ steward, 23; Caper, Manuel, passengers’cook, 22, USA; Cayles, William, mate, 35; Clynd, James, cook’s mate, 28; Davies, Timothy, seaman, 25; Dowd, Samuel, seaman, 30; Doyle, Thomas, ordinary seaman, 17; Doyle, Thomas, seaman, 20; Edmonston, Robert John, surgeon, 38; Gibbs, William, seaman, 26, USA; Gibbs, William, seaman, 26, USA; Goregh, George, assistant cook, 30; Graham, Charles, seaman, 42; Hanratty, James, seaman, 22; Joa? Antonio, ordinary seaman, 18, Portugal; Johns, Thomas, seaman, 24; Killen, Thomas, seaman, 21; McFarlane, John, carpenter, 22; McNair, George, seaman, 27; Moppett, George, ordinary seaman, 16; Moppett, William, 3rd mate, 17; Moppett, William, master; Mulholland, James, boatswain, 23; Natchel, Bernard, steward, 19, USA; O’Conner, Patrick, purser, 22; O’Loughlin, Peter, assistant purser, 22; Owen, ? seaman, 22; Parker, ? seaman, 21; Patten, ? seaman, 23; Peyce? James. Cook, 18; Pritchard, John, ordinary seaman, 15; Richardson, Joseph, ordinary seaman, 15; Roberts, Lewis, 2nd mate, 27; Secton, Michael, assistant purser, 40; Serre, Charles, seaman, 24, Dantzic; Snow, Thomas W, steward, 29; Wallace, Alfred, seaman, 20; Williams, Henry, seaman, 21; Williams, William, seaman, 24.

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