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It appears the captain was Peter J. Irving (P.J. Irving):

  • Captain Peter J. Irving signed a sworn List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the S.S. Republic on March 8th, 1879.
  • Peter J. Irving is listed as the S.S. Republic's Captain in the article "The Transatlantic Captains", by Charles Algernon Dougherty, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 73, 1886.

He may have been removed from the captaincy in the interim and reinstated, but it seems unlikely.

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