Built as a replica of the original DUNBRODY built in 1845 in Quebec. The replica was built at New Ross shipyard, Ireland. The yard was in a derelict state, and many years out of business, but they had a shallow drydock, and when the mud was dug out, the dock turned out to be a fine useable dock for the building of the replica.
November 1996 work commenced on her construction.
11 February 2001 launched under the name DUNBRODY, christened by An Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern and the former US Ambassador to Ireland, Mrs. Jean Kennedy Smith.
Tonnage 458 grt., dim. 53.7 x 8.5 x 5.7m., draught 4.30m.
Three masted wooden barque rigged vessel.
Sail area circa 940 sq. meter.
Auxiliary 2-cyl. diesel engine of 220 hp.
May 2001 open for the public.
The John F. Kennedy Trust of New Ross owns her. Designed by Colin Mudie.
The original DUNBRODY was built by Thomas Hamilton Oliver, a renowned Irish shipbuilder, for William Graves a timber merchant of New Ross in County Wexford, Ireland.
She was built in six months, and she was used from Ireland in the great emigration of Irish people during the famine years to the New World.
After her timber was discharged her holds were transformed to transport around 176 emigrants to the New World. (One website gives that she arrived in Canada with on board 209 passengers.)
Crew 18.
The DUNBRODY was one of the better ships during that time, but living conditions were not good at all.
Carpenter built two-tier berths, allocated to four persons, the berths each 6ft. square.
Passenger accessible lavatories probably, two on deck and four below.
Fares around £3 a head for tweendeck passengers.
At that time the crossing took between 3 and 8 weeks
Made one voyage to Peru to load guano but otherwise till she was sold, in the timber trade from Canada and with a return cargo of emigrants.
After 24 years sold to an owner in Cardiff in 1869.
1874 Registered at Bremen.
1875 She stranded and was lost near Belle Island off the coast of Labrador with a full cargo of lumber for Liverpool, worth £12.500, during a gale.
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Source: http://www.heritagequest.com/genealogy/ ... eship.html http://www.tallship-fan.de/index_e.htm Colin Mudie Sailing Ships. http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/replicas.html