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Innisfallen - a general history

Owners: 1864 William Pirrie (merchant, Conlig, County Down) & Co, Belfast (1866 Chartered to HN Hughes & Nephew, Liverpool); 1867 William P Sinclair (North John Street) & Co, Liverpool.

Masters: 1864-68 John Gibson.When William Pirrie & Co purchased the Innisfallen they paid half of the total cost of £23,750 & John Pile retained 34-64% of shares for four months when the balance was to be paid. Payment was not made in the time allotted & Pile informed William Pirrie that the ship could not be taken to sea but it was then chartered to HN Hughes & made another trip to Bombay. In June 1866 a suit was set in place for the recovery of an outstanding £9,000. In October 1866 the partnership between William Pirrie & R Reid was dissolved.

Miscellaneous: from Calcutta for London she sent a boat out in a high sea to rescue the crew of the London ship Fairlie which had been abandoned dismasted & in a sinking condition during a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal on 27 November 1865. The crew of the Fairlie had been on a makeshift raft for 20 hours before being picked up by the Innisfallen & landed at Mauritius. The master of the Innisfallen, John Gibson, was presented with a silver mounted telescope for his bravery & humanity.

Voyages: 1864-66 Hartlepool for India; October 13 1868 arrived Liverpool from Bombay. Innisfallen sailed from Liverpool 27 November 1868 bound for Bombay with a cargo of coal. After being left off Tuskar by the tug Guiding Star she was not heard of again.

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