Re: Attridge Captain James
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In reply to:
Re: Attridge Captain James
2/13/01
There was a N Attridge in Cork City in 1824:
(http://myhome.ispdr.net.au/~mgrogan/cork/cork_city_pigot_alpha.htm)
"James Attridge, the captain of the Jeanie Johnston, was from Castletownsend in Co. Cork and had first gone to sea as a fifteen year old in 1820. By the time he joined the Jeanie Johnston in 1848 he had been at sea for twenty-eight years, twenty of them as a captain. Attridge retired from the sea in 1862, having served on the Wilson Kennedy (wrecked in 1856) and the Georgiana. He became the Deputy-Harbourmaster in Passage (Cork harbour)in 1864. He died in 1885." (http://www.kelticountry.com/feeney.html).
There were not many Attridges living in Cork city (as opposed to the wider country) so I strongly suspect that my great grandfather, Arthur Attridge, was the son of James Attridge: he worked as a diver in Cork harbour, and died on board the merchant ship Inniscarra on 12 May 1918, torpedoed by a German U-boat in the final months of World War 1.