3-052-617 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The United States war frigate Constellation with relief stores for Irish distress off Haulbowline, in Cork Harbour, 1880. 'The Constellation has brought 500 tons of provisions and clothing,...the cargo being made up as follows: 1346 barrels potatoes, 675 barrels flour, 1144 barrels corn meal, and 150 barrels oatmeal. Besides these she has brought fifty-nine cases canned meats and seven packages of clothing and shoes...the Lord Mayor of Dublin,...addressing the captain, said that he and Mr. Joynt had been deputed by the Dublin Mansion House Committee to bid them welcome, and in the name of the country to express their deep sense of gratitude to the United States and to the captain and officers of the ship for coming to the assistance of the people of Ireland in the hour of necessity...it was finally decided that the whole of the cargo should be transhipped by the gun-boats, which had arrived the previous day, and by them conveyed to the ports on the south and west coasts...The cargo brought over by this vessel was supplied by a few individuals, residents of New York, and at a meeting of Congress it was resolved that a naval frigate should be placed at the disposal of those gentlemen for the conveyance of the food and clothing to Ireland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.