Joseph Wheeler (shipbuilder)

{{short description|Irish shipbuilder}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Joseph Wheeler''' began building and repairing ships in the early 19th century using derricks and slips on the Brickfield slobs off the Strand Road, Cork. By 1829 he had moved to a yard on the Lower Glanmire Road where he built a patent slip.<ref name="Rynne 1999">Rynne 1999, p118-123</ref> In the 1850s he moved, this time to a purpose-built yard at Rushbrooke that was built around a large drydock designed by Sir John Rennie the Younger.<ref name="Rynne 2006">Rynne 2006, p282-283</ref> While at the Lower Glanmire Road yard, Wheeler built a number of wooden ships including his largest, the 500-ton ''Mary Hardy''.

In 1842 Wheeler lived at 20 Grand Parade, Cork<ref name="cork directory">Cork Directory 1842-3</ref> and in 1867 he is recorded as having lived at Westlands, Queenstown (Cobh).<ref name="Henry">Henry & Coghlan's General Directory of Cork for 1867</ref>

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==Sources== * Rynne, Colin (1999). The Industrial Archaeology of Cork and Its Environs, Duchas The Heritage Society * Rynne, Colin (2006). Industrial Ireland 1750 - 1930: An Archaeology, The Collins Press

==External links== * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402173738/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/brodie/0/0/3/doc/bs003058.shtml |date=April 2, 2012 |title=Rushbrooke drydock between 1885 and 1946 }}

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