Who was captain john mackenzie of the ship south esk?

Answer 1

This site may have a picture and/or photograph of the ship you are looking for : -

Picture Australia - SOUTH ESK.Subject, South Esk (Ship). Subject, Barks (Sailing ships) --. Description, Three masted barque. Image number, H99.220/1710 ...
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-HTTP%253A%252F%252FWWW.SLV.VIC.GOV.AU%252FBRODIE%252F0%252F0%252F2%252FDOC%252FBS002

If the above link is broken, you can talk [chat] directly to a librarian at the following link : -

http://www.nla.gov.au/infoserv/askus.html

The ship, the South Esk did exist and was in Australia. The Oz have a picture/photo of same. They are revamping their library right now and this may cause some difficulty.

A lot of ships, sailing ships, ended up in Oz and NZ and possibly ended their working lives down there.

Mariners Index Master/Captain Reference/Ship Year. Iggleston-Capt Tigress (HCIC brig) 1836 .... 1832 McKenzie- Kenneth officer/Ann/lodgings debt_NSW 1835* McKie-Captn John ...
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/mariner6.htm

The Capt. John McKenzie you are looking for may have ended up in Oz. The above may link you to info about him.

Good luck and here is a scary statistic for your reference book or journal : -

About ten people are killed and eaten by sharks every year. However, 100 people per year are killed by falling coconuts.

Moral - do not stand under coconuts palms while observing the activities of sharks.

Answer 2

There are serveal Capt. John MacKenzie's out there but I was not able to find a single reference to the ship South Esk (named after a river in the Lotian region of Scotland) ...