Information please on the SS Mersaric ship

[tornado]

Hi all . "Is anyone out there a maritime buff?". My 1st Cousin 5 x rem was a Francis Rouffignac b 1828 Mousehole . According to a few of my records I see that Francis was the Captain of the SS Mersaric ship 1911 . I would like to know more about this ship etc if possible please . Thank you all .

[AlanBoyd]

Have you mis-typed something? This would make him a ship’s captain at age 83.

[GrahamSimons]

His Master's certificate can be found on Ancestry: All UK and Ireland, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927

[GrahamSimons]

Guidance to be found here, assuming the ship was British registered:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/registration-merchant-ships/

[KGarrad]

FreeBMD has a possible birth?

March qtr 1868 
Penzance Registration District     vol 5c, page 322
Rouffignac, Francis

Marriage December qtr 1892
Penzance Registration District     vol 5c, page 432
Rouffignac, Francis

+ and one of these brides +
Harvey Phillis Tregurtha
Peake Jessie Lucinda

[AlanBoyd]

It seems that the ship was ‘Mersario’ and it was a different Rouffignac?

30 June 1910: Cornishman

[AlanBoyd]

There is a Francis Rouffignac, mariner, in Liverpool in 1861 age 33 [1828] and born in Mousehole.

1871 he is back in Cornwall, a fisherman.
1881 same, now 53

1882 Q1 Penzance, death age 54

[JenB]

FreeBMD has a possible birth?

March qtr 1868 
Penzance Registration District     vol 5c, page 322
Rouffignac, Francis

Marriage December qtr 1892
Penzance Registration District     vol 5c, page 432
Rouffignac, Francis

+ and one of these brides +
Harvey Phillis Tregurtha
Peake Jessie Lucinda

He married Jessie Lucinda and they were in Newlyn at the time of the 1911 census. He was a carpenter and wheelwright.

[AlanBoyd]

If it is Mersario rather than Mersaric, here is the launch of such a ship in 1889

31 May 1889: Lloyd's List