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Joseph Scarrow, Master Mariner: Voyage Record
This section presents all the information discovered about Joseph's voyages during his time in the Merchant Service, which started in 1831 and ended with his death at sea in 1863.
At the time that Joseph went to sea there was no formal record keeping of a seaman's movements. This was about to change, and various ticketing systems came and went over the next few decades. For Joseph, and others who sailed in during this period, it means there is an extensive, though somewhat haphazard, paper trail of voyages.
BT120 Register of Seaman, Series I
This volume only covers the period 1835 to 1836, and whilst Joseph was an apprentice in 1835, he was working as a Mate in 1836. However, despite this, he does not have an entry in the register.
BT112/61 Register of Seaman, Series II, part 1
This volume covers the period 1835 to February 1840, and the entries found for Joseph are shown below:
The extra entry in red covers the voyage that he undertook during the gap between part 1 and part 2 of the series. No mariners will have any entries between March 1840 and December 1841. The entries in both part 1 and part 2 of the series only showed the homebound voyages.
Each entry has three lines decoded as follows: Line 1: [RANK] [DATE]; Line 2: [REG. PORT] [PRN] where PRN is the Port Rotation number which is used to identify the vessel. Line 3: [VESSEL NAME]
The following abbreviations have been used: M=Mate; 34=Drogheda; 44=Glasgow; 48=Greenock; 59=Lancaster; 103=Whitehaven; 72, 81, 122, 468, 712 and 819 are port rotation numbers used to identify the vessel (712/819=Blucher,72/81/122/468=Hope).
BT112/62 Register of Seaman, Series II, part 2
This volume covers the period Dec 1841 to 1844, and the entries found for Joseph are shown below:
Again, the missing entries are shown in red, only one of which is due to falling in the gap between the two parts of the series. The entries in both part 1 and part 2 of the series only showed the homebound voyages.
Each entry has four lines decoded as follows: Line 1: [RANK]; Line 2: [REG. PORT] [PRN] where PRN is the Port Rotation number which is used to identify the vessel. Line 3: [DATE]; Line 4: [VESSEL NAME]
The following abbreviations have been used: C=Master; 62=Liverpool; 90=Liverpool; 103=Whitehaven; 55 and 10258 are both port rotation numbers which would have been used to identify the vessel as Blucher.
BT115/10 Alphabetical Register of Masters
This volume for Masters only, and was introduced at the same time as the Register of Seamen's Tickets. It covers the period 1845 to 1850. This register differed from the Register of Seamen in one fundamental way in that it included information on both the outward and homebound voyages. However, unlike the Register of Seamen's Tickets, it does not show any biographical information about the mariner.
Joseph Scarrow's entry in the register is shown below:
The entries shown in red have been added by the author after consultation of various crew lists. Why they are missing is somewhat of a mystery, but does illustrate that the various ticketing systems should not be solely relied upon to provide a complete history of a mariner's career. The lower entries on both the 1849 and 1850 columns show home trade, the date given being the end of the 6 month agreement (normally June or December, but in both these cases January!). One of the main flaws of this system was the inability to record home trade work undertaken by mariners registered in the foreign trade.
Each entry has three lines decoded as follows: Line 1: [RANK]; Line 2: [PRN] [REG. PORT] [?] where PRN is the Port Rotation number which is used to identify the vessel. Line 3: [ARR/DEP PORT] [DATE];
The following abbreviations have been used: C=Master; 22=Carlisle; 24=Chester; 35=Dublin; 62=Liverpool; 66=Newcastle; 103=Whitehaven; 66, 467 and 480 are port rotation numbers used to identify the vessel (66/467=Blucher, 480=Albion).
BT124/12 Register of Certificates of Service, Masters and Mates, Foreign.
This volume covers the period 1850 to 1900, and the entries found for Joseph are shown below:
This missing entries are again shown in red.
Each entry has one or two lines decoded as follows: Line 1: [PRN] [REG. PORT] [?] where PRN is the Port Rotation number which is used to identify the vessel. Line 2: [SCH A or C] [DATE];
The following abbreviations have been used: A=Schedule A (An Agreement filed at the beginning of a foreign going voyage); C=Schedule C (A Crew List filed at the end of a foreign going voyage); 103=Whitehaven; 128=Workington; 480 and 40 are port rotations numbers for Albion; C has also been used to signify Master.
The table below is a continuation of the same register, covering 1856-63, this time without any gaps.
Joseph died at sea on 27th June 1863 and this has been annotated on the register.
Up to 1858, the entries are decoded as in the previous table. From 1859, the first entry has three lines decoded as follows: Line 1: [SHIP OFF. NO.]; Line 2 [RANK] [SHIP NAME]; Line 3 [DATE] [DEP PORT] [ARR PORT]. Subsequent lines are decoded in the same way as line 3.
The following abbreviations have been used: A=Schedule A; C=Schedule C; 39299 and 28653 are the ship official numbers for Albion and Teesdale respectively. C has also been used to signify Master. 62=Liverpool; 64=London; 128=Workington;
The information from the various tickets, as well as data derived from crew lists, newspapers and Lloyds List have been combined to produce a voyage history shown below. The rank has been abbreviated to A, M and C which correspond to Apprentice, Mate and Master respectively (Joseph was promoted from apprentice directly to Mate). The passage is the length of the voyage in days.
| Rank | Ship | From | Dep | To | Arr | Passage | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Hope | Whitehaven | 1831 | Quebec | 20 Jun 1831 | Master probably Joseph Huddart. | |
| A | Hope | Quebec | Jul 1831 | Dublin | 22 Aug 1831 | ||
| A | Hope | Dublin | Sep 1831 | Limerick | 19 Sep 1831 | The Hope, Huddart, from Dublin to Quebec, put back to Limerick, having been 500 miles to the westward, with the loss of boats and bulwarks, and two men washed overboard on the 19th August. | |
| A | Hope | Limerick | 29 Nov 1831 | Liverpool | 9 Dec 1831 | 10 | The Hope, Huddart, at Liverpool on the 9th Dec, from Limerick, 10 days passage, with loss of foretopmast staysail, and part of her bulwarks. |
| A | Hope | Liverpool | Jan 1832 | Limerick | Jan 1832 | ||
| A | Hope | Limerick | Feb 1832 | Liverpool | 28 Feb 1832 | Last voyage in this series with Joseph Huddart as Master. | |
| A | Hope | Liverpool | 15 Apr 1832 | Bowmore | 21 Apr 1832 | 6 | The Hope, Greig, from Liverpool for Newfoundland put into Bowmore, Isle of Islay, on the 21st ult., having been struck by a heavy sea off Tory Island, and lost boats, bulwarks and stancheons, cargo shifted, and she makes much water. |
| A | Hope | Bowmore | May 1832 | Newfoundland | Jun 1832 | Master is now William Greggs, also referred to as Gregg and Greig. | |
| A | Hope | Cape Breton | Jul 1832 | Liverpool | 4 Oct 1832 | ||
| A | Hope | Liverpool | Mar 1833 | Baltimore | 4 May 1833 | ||
| A | Hope | Baltimore | Jun 1833 | Carlisle | 30 Aug 1833 | Last voyage with William Greggs as Master. | |
| A | Hope | Annan | Master is once again Joseph Huddart for this next series of voyages until his death in Jul 1836. | ||||
| A | Hope | Annan | Whitehaven | 5 Sep 1833 | |||
| A | Hope | Whitehaven | 13 Dec 1833 | Beaumaris | 18 Dec 1833 | 5 | The Hope, Huddart, from hence to Dublin put into Beaumaris on the 18th inst. with loss of top mast and foresail. |
| A | Hope | Beaumaris | Dublin | ||||
| A | Hope | Dublin | Liverpool | 17 Feb 1834 | |||
| A | Hope | Liverpool | 8 Apr 1834 | Philadelphia | 18 Jun 1834 | 71 | |
| A | Hope | Philadelphia | Jun 1834 | Aug 1834 | |||
| A | Hope | Liverpool | 12 Jan 1835 | Kingstown | 4 Feb 1835 | 23 | |
| A | Hope | Kingstown | Feb 1835 | Baltimore | 17 Apr 1835 | ||
| A | Hope | Baltimore | Apr 1835 | St. John NB | May 1835 | ||
| A | Hope | St. John NB | Lancaster | 29 Jul 1835 | Hope of Harrington, Huddart, from Dalhousie, Port of St. John, New Brunswick, with 39 pieces of birch timber, 107 deals, and 11 1/4 cords lathwood, for Welsh and Hudson; 35 spars or masts, for Joseph Huddart. | ||
| A | Hope | Lancaster | 22 Aug 1835 | Quebec | 8 Oct 1835 | 47 | |
| A | Hope | Quebec | Dublin | 2 Dec 1835 | |||
| A | Hope | Dublin | Harrington | 27 Dec 1835 | |||
| M | Hope | Dublin | Quebec | 9 Jun 1836 | |||
| M | Hope | Quebec | 19 Jul 1836 | Lancaster | 20 Aug 1836 | 32 | Master Joseph Huddart died at sea 22 Jul 1836, three days after leaving Quebec. |
| M | Hope | Harrington | 15 Oct 1836 | Dublin | Master is now John Douglas, and remains so for the remainder of voyages in this table. | ||
| M | Hope | Dublin | Harrington | 5 Nov 1836 | |||
| M | Hope | Harrington | 23 Nov 1836 | Dublin | |||
| M | Hope | Dublin | Harrington | 18 Dec 1836 | |||
| M | Hope | Dublin | 17 Apr 1837 | Quebec | |||
| M | Hope | Quebec | Glasson, Lancaster | 5 Aug 1837 | |||
| M | Hope | Whitehaven | 30 Mar 1838 | Quebec | 1 Jun 1838 | 63 | |
| M | Hope | Quebec | 3 Jun 1838 | Whitehaven | Jul 1838 | ||
| M | Hope | Whitehaven | 27 Jul 1838 | Quebec | 22 Sep 1838 | 57 | |
| M | Hope | Quebec | Drogheda | 4 Dec 1838 | Master of Hope is still John Douglas, but after this voyage, Joseph Scarrow transfers to the snow Blucher. | ||
| M | Blucher | Liverpool | 14 Mar 1839 | Jamaica | 24 Jul 1839 | 132 | Master of Blucher is William Brown. |
| M | Blucher | Jamaica | Greenock | 24 Sep 1839 | |||
| M | Blucher | Greenock | 21 Oct 1839 | Troon | This voyage, which comprises the next six rows of the table is decribed here. | ||
| M | Blucher | Troon | 3 Nov 1839 | Belfast | 6 Nov 1839 | 3 | |
| M/C | Blucher | Belfast | St. Thomas | Jan 1840 | Seaman William Ross (8th Jan 1840); Second Mate William Thomas (27th Jan 1840); Seaman William McAvoy (1st Feb 1840) and apprentice Ephraim Banks (5th Feb 1840) all died in St. Thomas, probably after contracting Yellow Fever. | ||
| M/C | Blucher | St. Thomas | Feb 1840 | Gonaives | Feb 1840 | John Johnson died on Feb 18th whilst en-route to Gonaives, probably of Yellow Fever. Captain William Brown, died age 26, in Gonaives on 25 Feb 1840 of Yellow Fever. | |
| M/C | Blucher | Gonaives | 22 Apr 1840 | Turks Island | Jun 1840 | The Blucher (late Brown), of Workington, would he ready for sea at Gonives, about the middle of April. The Blucher, Scarrow, of Workington, would sail from Gonaives for Cork, for orders, on the 22nd April. | |
| M/C | Blucher | Turks Island | 15 Jun 1840 | Liverpool | 23 Jul 1840 | 38 | |
| M | Blucher | Liverpool | Glasgow | 25 Jul 1840 | |||
| C | Blucher | Glasgow | 22 Aug 1840 | Demerara | |||
| Demerara | Greenock | 5 Mar 1841 | Cargo included 130 logs of hardwood. | ||||
| C | Blucher | Greenock | 6 Mar 1841 | Liverpool | 22 Mar 1841 | 16 | Cargo included 130 logs of hardwood. |
| C | Blucher | Liverpool | 18 Aug 1841 | Kingston, Jamaica | The Blucher, Scarrow. was launched from the patent slip of Messrs . Peile, Scott, and Co., at Workington, on the 3rd inst (3rd Jun) after undergoing a thorough repair. | ||
| C | Blucher | Kingston | Liverpool | 30 Mar 1842 | |||
| C | Blucher | Liverpool | 21 Aug 1842 | Pernambuco | |||
| C | Blucher | Pernambuco | Liverpool | 13 Jan 1843 | |||
| C | Blucher | Liverpool | 1 Mar 1843 | Bahia | |||
| C | Blucher | Bahia | Whitehaven | 21 Sep 1843 | Cargo comprised of Sugar, Cotton, Coquilhonuts, Coffee, Arrowroot, Piassava, Rosewood | ||
| C | Blucher | Liverpool | 26 Oct 1843 | Ichaboe Island | |||
| C | Blucher | Ichaboe Isl | Southampton | 27 Jul 1844 | |||
| C | Blucher | Southampton | 19 Aug 1844 | Bahia | 30 Dec 1844 | 133 | Got on the Steelsand, April 17th 1845, but came off after discharging part of her cargo. |
| C | Blucher | Bahia | 25 Jan 1845 | Hamburg | 30 Apr 1845 | 95 | |
| C | Blucher | Hamburg | 19 Jul 1845 | Quebec | 8 Sep 1845 | 51 | George Rose left in hospital in Quebec |
| C | Blucher | Quebec | Dublin | 18 Nov 1845 | |||
| C | Blucher | Liverpool | 12 Apr 1846 | Quebec | 24 Jun 1846 | 73 | Alexander Thom, Thomas Hamilton, William Scott, William Collins, Charles Forsyth and John Seers all deserted in Quebec |
| C | Blucher | Quebec | 18 Jul 1846 | Chester | 1 Sep 1846 | 45 | |
| C | Blucher | Whitehaven | 2 Oct 1846 | Berbice | Henry Spring, no 211095, is very sick and remains in the Colonial Hospital, Berbice under my sanction this 25th day January 1847. Further that John James, no 257270, was shipped this same date in room of the above. Pay to commence from the 21st December 1846. | ||
| C | Blucher | Berbice | Workington | 3 Apr 1847 | Mate William Scarrow. | ||
| C | Blucher | Workington | 9 May 1847 | Demerara | 1 Jul 1847 | 53 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Blucher | Demerara | 16 Aug 1847 | Shields | 30 Oct 1847 | 75 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Harrington | 10 Apr 1848 | Dalhousie | Mate William Scarrow. | ||
| C | Albion | Dalhousie | Workington | 3 Sep 1848 | Mate William Scarrow. | ||
| C | Albion | Harrington | 28 Sep 1848 | Limerick | Mate William Scarrow. Coasting trade | ||
| C | Albion | Limerick | London | 16 Jan 1849 | Mate William Scarrow. | ||
| C | Albion | Liverpool | 26 Apr 1849 | St. Johns | 7 Jun 1849 | 42 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | St. Johns | 25 Jun 1849 | Dalhousie | 10 Jul 1849 | 15 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Dalhousie | 21 Jul 1849 | Carlisle | 4 Sep 1849 | 45 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Harrington | 3 Oct 1849 | Dublin | Coasting Trade, Reg Ticket 40424. Lawford Cole listed on crew as a "Runner" | ||
| C | Albion | Dublin | Harrington | 21 Oct 1849 | |||
| C | Albion | Harrington | 28 Nov 1849 | Dublin | Coasting Trade, Reg Ticket 40424. Lawford Cole listed on crew as a "Runner" | ||
| C | Albion | Dublin | Whitehaven | 8 Jan 1850 | The Albion, Scarrow, of Harrington, from Dublin, was driven on shore when trying to make the harbour, and was with great difficulty got off next day. | ||
| C | Albion | Harrington | 28 May 1850 | Montevideo | 28 Sep 1850 | 123 | |
| Montevideo | Bahia | 2 Nov 1850 | |||||
| C | Albion | Bahia | 26 Nov 1850 | Harrington | 8 Feb 1851 | 74 | |
| C | Albion | London | 10 Mar 1851 | St. Vincent | 9 May 1851 | 60 | Delivered Register ticket of Thomas McNeil no 442,610 for petty larson on the 7th May. Thomas McNeil was hear by condemned to thirty days hard labour for misconduct |
| C | Albion | St. Vincent | 21 May 1851 | London | 30 Jul 1851 | 70 | |
| C | Albion | London | 1 Sep 1851 | Rio de Janeiro | 16 Jan 1852 | 137 | |
| Rio de Janeiro | Barbados | 24 Feb 1852 | |||||
| C | Albion | Barbados | London | 26 May 1852 | William Lamont and James Wallace should have joined the vessel at Rio, but were imprisoned. Henry Hale should also have joined at Rio but did not appear. | ||
| C | Albion | London | 17 Jun 1852 | Berbice | via Shields, both outward and return | ||
| C | Albion | Berbice | Limehouse | 12 Dec 1852 | |||
| C | Albion | Deal | 16 Feb 1853 | St. Vincent | 16 Mar 1853 | 28 | |
| C | Albion | St. Vincent | 7 May 1853 | London | 10 Jun 1853 | 34 | |
| C | Albion | Liverpool | 7 Jul 1853 | Cape Verde | 30 Aug 1853 | 54 | Charles Stewart should have joined the vessel in London but was sick. |
| Cape Verde | 24 Sep 1853 | Buenos Aires | 24 Jan 1854 | 122 | |||
| C | Albion | Buenos Aires | Feb 1854 | Plymouth | 8 May 1854 | Francis Cavanagh should have joined the vessel in B.A. but didn't appear. | |
| C | Albion | Plymouth | 22 May 1854 | Belfast | [3 Jun 1854] | Will sail from Belfast on June 26th to Quebec - advert from Belfast News for passenger births for a limited number of passengers. | |
| Belfast | 29 Jun 1854 | Quebec | 19 Aug 1854 | 51 | |||
| C | Albion | Quebec | 7 Sep 1854 | Whitehaven | 11 Oct 1854 | 34 | |
| C | Albion | ||||||
| C | Albion | Harrington | 30 Jan 1855 | Whitehaven | 30 Jan 1855 | ||
| C | Albion | Cardiff | 5 Mar 1855 | Antigua | May 1855 | Edward Lobb (cook) Joseph Worby and John Dunmore (seamen) should have been on vessel, but didn't join. | |
| C | Albion | Antigua | Jun 1855 | Liverpool | 20 Sep 1855 | ||
| C | Albion | Liverpool | 27 Nov 1855 | Trinidad | Jan 1856 | ||
| C | Albion | Trinidad | Feb 1856 | London | 6 Apr 1856 | ||
| C | Albion | Gravesend | 22 May 1856 | Demerara | Jul 1856 | ||
| C | Albion | Demerara | 30 Aug 1856 | Workington | 31 Oct 1856 | 62 | The Albion, Scarrow, from Demerara to Workington, went on shore at Ravenglass, 30th Oct. |
| C | Albion | Whitehaven | 24 Mar 1857 | Demerara | May 1857 | ||
| C | Albion | Demerara | Jun 1857 | Workington | 3 Sep 1857 | ||
| C | Albion | Workington | 16 Oct 1857 | Demerara | 30 Nov 1857 | 45 | |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 23 Jan 1858 | Workington | 29 Mar 1858 | 65 | |
| C | Albion | Liverpool | 3 Jul 1858 | Demerara | 14 Aug 1858 | 42 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 12 Oct 1858 | Liverpool | 8 Dec 1858 | 57 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Liverpool | 24 Feb 1859 | Demerara | 2 May 1859 | 67 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 1 Jul 1859 | Annan | 1 Sep 1859 | 62 | Mate William Scarrow. |
| Liverpool | Maryport | ||||||
| Maryport | 30 Sep 1859 | Workington | 30 Sep 1859 | 1 | |||
| C | Albion | Workington | 10 Mar 1860 | Demerara | 25 Apr 1860 | 46 | |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 5 Jun 1860 | Workington | 20 Jul 1860 | 45 | |
| C | Albion | Workington | 18 Aug 1860 | Demerara | 11 Oct 1860 | 54 | |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 27 Nov 1860 | Workington | 28 Jan 1861 | 62 | |
| C | Albion | Workington | 30 Mar 1861 | Demerara | 20 May 1861 | 51 | |
| C | Albion | Demerara | 13 Jul 1861 | Workington | 7 Sep 1861 | 56 | The Albion, Scarrow, of Workington, from Demerara for London, put in here on the 20th inst. (20th Jul), with Master ill, but he having recovered, the ship is to proceed tomorrow (26th Jul). |
| C | Teesdale | London | 23 Apr 1862 | Colombo | 4 Sep 1862 | 134 | George Scarrow, Joseph Scarrow's youngest son, was apprentice on this return voyage. |
| C | Teesdale | Colombo | 1 Nov 1862 | London | 3 Mar 1863 | 122 | Called into St. Helena on 6 Jan 1863. |
| C | Teesdale | London | 22 May 1863 | Penang | 6 Oct 1863 | 137 | Joseph died due to effects of drink 200nm W Liberia, after 1 month illness on 27 June 1863. |
| Teesdale | Penang | London | 23 May 1864 | Master John Topping |
A more detailed description of Joseph's voyages, which includes the names of all the other crew members transcribed from crew lists can be found here.
To read the next section on Joseph Scarrow, which describes his first voyage as (acting) Master, click here.
