City of Cork Steam Packet Co

Early Paddle steamers. Sabrina, Preussischer Adler and Apollo.

1904.

1824 Established

1871 Incorporated as a Limited Company. 'July 15, 1871, the City of Cork Steam Packet Co. was made into a limited liability concern by the division of the old Cork Steamship Co. The Home Services, which had taken over the old St. George Steam Packet Co., became the City of Cork Steam Packet Co., while the Continental Lines retained the old title of the Cork Steamship Co., but the two concerns continued to run side by side to mutual benefit. The St. George Co. was established in Liverpool in the mid 'twenties of last century, and either owned or chartered quite a number of the early steamers. It had to encounter all sorts of opposition, and various inducements were offered to passengers. That sort of competition could not go on indefinitely, and in 1844 the St. George Co. had to be wound up, the assets being taken over by the Cork Steamship Co.'

1914 Cross-Channel Sea Carriers, Penrose's Quay, Cork. Chairman: Ebenezer Pike. Managing Director: Walter de Foubert. The first operations of the original proprietors (the St. George's Steam Packet Company) commenced early in the nineteenth century. That Company owned the S.S. "Sirius," the first steamer to cross the Atlantic from this side. Present Company have the largest quayside premises in Ireland for dealing with Cross-Channel traffic. Services to Liverpool, Fishguard, Bristol, Cardiff, Newport, Plymouth, Southampton, and London.

Ships

• 1822-1824 Saint Patrick (1822)
• 1822-1830 Saint George (1822)
• 1823-1824 Hibernia (1823)
• 1823-1835 Emerald Isles
• 1825-1845 Lee (1825)
• 1825-1845 Severn
• 1825-1831 Saint Patrick (1825)
• 1827-1843 Innisfail
• 1831-1836 Air
• 1832-1843 Saint George (1832)
• 1832-1845 Victory
• 1832-1843 William IV
• 1832-1853 Paul Pry
• 1833-1843 Express
• 1834-1845 Erin
• 1835-1838 Herald (1827)
• 1835-1847 Jupiter
• 1836-1853 Ocean
• 1836-1841 Juno (1836)
• 1843-1860 Nimrod
• 1844-1882 Sabrina
• 1846-1884 Pruessischer Adler
• 1853-1894 Cormorant
• 1873-1904 Xema
• 1877-1881 Apollo (1862)
• 1880-1906 Lee (1880)
• 1888-1904 Glanmire
• 1889-1910 Blarney
• 1891-1910 Killarney
• 1893-1924 Glengariff
• 1895-1918 Kenmare
• 1896-1918 Inisfallen
• 1905-1917 Lismore
• 1909-1917 Ardmore

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