[18] "This fine new ship, which arrived on Monday last, after a smart passage, is now lying at the east side of the Prince's Dock," according to a lengthy review of her construction published in the Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser after her maiden voyage.

"She is of about a thousand tons burden, new measurement; was built for Messrs. Grinnell and Minturn's line of packets, (consigned to Messrs. Wildes, Pickersgill and Co., of this town), by Messrs. Brown and Bell, of New York, and is in every point a first-rate ship.

Our contemporary will be gratified to learn that many gentlemen, equally versed in naval architecture, on this side the Atlantic, have visited the "Patrick Henry," and express a high opinion, corroborative of that of their Transatlantic brethren.

As we feel assured—such is the interest taken in whatever belongs to navigation in this maritime country—that not only nautical, but mercantile men, and Englishmen generally, are never weary of hearing of improvement in naval architecture, we shall notice this new packet-ship more particularly.

The sides are beautifully empanelled in the finest choice wood of "every clime," in nearly the same style as the cabin of the "Roscius," forming an exceedingly rich and effective specimen of cabinet work.

The ladies' cabin, farther forward, adjoins the saloon, the two forming, by the lowering of a large panel between, hung in the manner of a window, one continuous apartment of great length and elegance.

The steward's pantry, leading out of the ladies' cabin, and with an entrance from the main deck, is unusually spacious, and is replete with glass, china ware, &c., for the dispensing of "the good things of this life."

"[20] Five days before her maiden voyage, on November 2, 1839, the New York Morning Herald published an article titled, "Fête On Board The Patrick Henry," that documented a "neat little ... pic-nic, or collation" given by its widely respected captain, "aboard the splendid new ship," and, "attended by all the elite."

The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser reported Captain Delano as "a gentleman whose skill as a seaman, and urbanity as a man, are well known and highly appreciated" and listed its first passengers:"...namely:—Mr.

"[22] The Patrick Henry was purchased and owned by the once preeminent New York Shipping House Grinnell, Minturn & Co., a conglomerate of merchant and sailing magnates with New England Quaker roots.

"[27] Minturn served as a vice president on the relief committee that eventually sent the Macedonian, June 19, 1847, with supplies to Ireland, and was a Commissioner of Emigration and a founder of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.

[28] Minturn reportedly once noted that the $5 million spent on ship fares in 1847, "substantially reduced the cost of carrying freight," and helped the economy by lowering the price of American cotton and grain for English buyers.

According to the website, An Irish Passenger, An American Family, And Their Time, profit, "rather than humanitarian impulses" drove immigration, "and because government regulatory agencies and private philanthropies were unwilling or unable to exert much control over that business, 19th century emigrants were often literally treated as human freight.

The priest wanted to remain singularly focused on helping people stop drinking alcohol and was criticized for not speaking out against slavery and foregoing the abolitionist cause, a complicated issue for the immigrant Irish Catholics who, some historians suggest, were competing with Blacks for jobs in the U.S. at the time.

"As the stormy Atlantic had not yet been carpeted by six-day steamers, I crossed in a fine new packet-ship, the Patrick Henry... Captain Joseph C. Delano was a gentleman of high intelligence and culture who, after he had abandoned salt water, became an active member of the American Association of Science.

Delano the elder retired from sea in 1848 but returned to helm an 1851 voyage of his brother's charge, the American Packet Ship Albert Gallatin (built 1849, 1,435 tons), before becoming partner in a cotton mill and a business importing boghead coal.

"[50] On February 9, 1846, hundreds of people gathered at the Battery overlooking the East River to watch the beginning of a notable, singular regatta from New York to Liverpool between what was considered one of the fastest pilot boats, the fifty-ton schooner William J. Romer, and the Patrick Henry, captained by Joseph's younger brother and former first mate, John Allerton Delano (1809–1893).

The writer accuses the crew of robbing passengers "of money, spirits, tea, coffee, and sugar," breaking into lockers and stealing, and going unpunished, as well as "prowling about the ship to find some simple females who will hearken to them."

"[55] In arguably the worst year of the Great Famine, on May 6 and again on September 7, 1847, the Patrick Henry, under Captain Joseph Delano, left the Burling Slip on South Street in New York and transported relief from societies in Brooklyn (primarily May 6 run), Albany, Rochester, New York, the State of Ohio, and Burlington, New Jersey, that included clothing, Indian corn, cornmeal, rye, wheat, peas, beans, flour, meal, barley, buckwheat, bread and pork, to Liverpool, valued at the time at $4,636.22 (May: $1,166.07; Sept: $3,470.15), today worth about $150,000,[56] to be distributed by the Committee of Society of Friends in Dublin to the people of Ireland.

[65] The Carolans left their ancestral home in Light Town, parts of which are in the townlands of Drumbaragh and Balrath Demesne, on the border with Springville/Dandlestown, Civil Parish of Burry, which is three miles southwest of Kells.

"[The Patrick Henry] was one of the vessels which had so often before carried invalids, or tired clergymen, or young men broken down by study, sent by Mr. Minturn to recruit their strength by a voyage," a family member wrote in an hagiography published privately after his death.

"[70] The Minturns took an eighteen-month tour of England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Jerusalem and Egypt that was said to have inspired plans that led to the creation of New York's Central Park.

[77] In early 1853, the Patrick Henry's Seaman Matthew Barnabb and Seamen Louis Barroch were drowned on January 18, during an unseasonably harsh Atlantic winter that had begun the previous fall.

Then in December, the American clipper Staffordshire was on the return leg of a stormy transatlantic crossing and ran aground and sank off Nova Scotia, taking 170 of her 214 passengers and crew with her.

[79] Receiving information as quickly as possible—whether regarding particulars about trade, foreign markets, decision-making, professional partnerships, business documents, legal contracts, personal letters and political, government and military news—was of urgent importance to 19th-century commerce.

"[80] Improvements in the speed of that communication was crucial for many commercial, financial and shipping business activities—speedier information made capital move faster, directly affecting world trade.

Originally rigged as a ship, in 1869–70 she was re-rigged as a bark and likely put into service as a timber transport between England and Canada—similar to the Flying Cloud, which became "just one of many prosaic vessels that tramped around the world looking for freight."

His cousin Jonathan Pim was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin and served as secretary for the Quaker Relief fund during the an Gorta Mór and bought an estate in the west of Ireland for the purpose of benefiting the tenants.

The Quakers (Society of Friends) are recognized as saving thousands of lives in Ireland by establishing the first soup kitchens and tirelessly working to distribute and donate food during the Great Hunger.

[91] Fittingly, Jonathan Pim corresponded directly with the New York relief committee concerning the 1847 shipments of food aboard the very Patrick Henry that his cousin, James Edwin, later purchased.