Picture of ship...

[L Murphy]

Hi all,

I'm trying to find a picture of the ship 'F.B. Cutting' that sailed from Liverpool to New York, USA 7 April 1864.

Does anyone here know which website etc that I can visit?

Thanks, Lynn

[Sandra Parker]

Have located some details on SS F B Cutting, presumable names after a Francis B Cutting, though don't know anything else.
Try the following for a bit of info.
(the usual)belgium.rootsweb.ancestry.com/migr/ships/f/ship_franciscutting.html

You might find something on (the usual)pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html or (the usual) immigrantships.net/index.html
Sandra

[L Murphy]

Hi thanks for the links Sandra. I have been looking through them but still cannot find the ship I'm after.

Thanks, Lynn

[Mutley]

This site has several links to various shipping sites.
The owner also has an email address, might be worth asking him.
www.
fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm

[kermie62]

I can find a portrait of the man not the ship. Sorry

[Mutley]

I can find a portrait of the man not the ship. Sorry

I also found several pictures of him, Francis Brockholst Cutting, a New York Senator.
From what I can make out it seems they were taken by a photographer called Mathew Brady and I am sure I remember that his photographs were somewhere in New York. I wonder, if he took photos of the man, he may also have taken one of the ship. A really long shot I know but might be worth looking into.

[Coromandel]

Still no joy with a picture, but I've found a bit more about the ship, which may help:

'The Civil War and the gradual increase of iron screw-propelled steamers, under the British and German flags, dealt the American packet lines a mortal blow, and by 1870 few of them were left. Besides the lines already mentioned, there existed the " Regular Line " to Antwerp from New York, running the ships 'David Hoadley," "F. B. Cutting," etc., owned by Post, Smith & Co. of New York.'

from
http://www.
archive.org/stream/essexinstitutehi56esseuoft/essexinstitutehi56esseuoft_djvu.txt

[Coromandel]

The New York Times of 17 March 1854 reported the ship's launch:

Under the heading 'WILLIAMSBURG CITY'
'LAUNCHED.- Mr. A. Patterson launched from his yard, foot of North Eighth-street, at 11 o'clock yesterday, the ship Francis B. Cutting, owned by E.D. Hurlburt & Co., and intended for their line of Antwerp Packets. She is 154 feet long, 36 feet beam, 23 feet deep, and 1,000 tons burden. She is to be commanded by Capt. Rockwell.'

[Mutley]

Well done Coromandel,
The photographer Mathew Brady was well known for his photographs taken during the Civil War, I am sure I read he took thousands! but maybe it was hundreds.

[L Murphy]

I have looked at the website you have all put on here. I found Matthew Brady's photographs interesting.
Lots to look through but still no luck.

Well I will keep on searching
Thanks guys
Lynn