There were also two stablemen on board to look after the mules: Timothy Connell and James Morley.
Also on board were John Cramer, the ship's carpenter seamen John Howes, Francis Sullivan and John Keating and three apprentices – John Deaves (aged 15), Daniel Scully (13), and Henry Rickards (12). His chief mate was a Scotsman named William Smith, and his second mate was a Swede named William Swanson. The ship's captain was William Stewart, a Protestant man born in Cobh in 1775. The bottom was sheathed in copper to protect the vessel from shipworm. The ship was built entirely of wood, with wooden masts and rope rigging.
That tonnage would make it about 80 feet in length. The story was largely forgotten until 2010, when The Ship of Seven Murders, a book which detailed the case, was published.īuilt in 1817, the Mary Russell was a small wooden brig of 132 tonnes, drawing 13 feet under load, single-decked with beams. When it returned to Cobh on 25 June 1828, the ship's captain had brutally murdered seven of his crewmen. The Mary Russell was a trading boat that set sail from the harbour of Cobh, Ireland, on 8 February 1828, carrying a cargo of mules bound for Barbados. ( October 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.
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