Cicero (1819 Ship)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	Cicero
Namesake:	Cicero
Builder:	Hull
Launched:	1819
Fate:	Wrecked 1 July 1826
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	320 (bm)

Cicero was launched at Hull in 1819 as a Greenland whaler, hunting bowhead whales. She made six full voyages to the Greenland whale fishery and was lost in July 1826 on her seventh.

Career

Cicero first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1819 with Parkin, master, Raith & Co., owner, and trade Hull-Greenland.^[1]

Year	Master	Owner	Trade	Source & notes
1820	Parkin	Raith & Co.	Hull–Greenland	LR
1825	T.Lee	Routh & Co.	Hull–Greenland	LR; large repairs 1821, 1822, & 1823

Whaling voyages

The following data is from Coltish:^[2]

Year	Master	Where	Whales	Tuns whale oil
1819	Parkin	Greenland	6	38
1820	Parkin	Greenland	9	80
1821	Leaf	Greenland	7	101
1822	Leaf	Greenland	2	33 (70 Butts)
1823	Lee	Greenland	5	89
1824	Lee	Davis Strait	14	159
1825	Lee	Davis Strait	15	200
1826	Lee	Davis Strait	0	0

Fate

Cicero, Lee, master, was lost on 1 July 1826 in the Davis Strait.^[3] Andrew Marvel rescued her crew.

By another report, Cicero was destroyed by taking the "Middle Ice" in Latitude 75°12′ North, at midnight 7 June 1826.^[4]

Citations and references

Citations

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 LR (1819), Supple. pages "C", Seq.№C38.
↑ Coltish (c. 1842).
↑ Lloyd's List №6152.
↑ British Museum.

References

Coltish, William (c. 1842). An account of the success of the ships at the Greenland and Davis Straits fisheries 1772-1842 inclusive. https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/assets/hull:7178/content.

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[LR1819-1] 1.0 ^1.1 LR (1819), Supple. pages "C", Seq.№C38.

[FOOTNOTEColtishc._1842-2] Coltish (c. 1842).

[3] Lloyd's List №6152.

[4] British Museum.

History

United Kingdom
Name:	Cicero
Namesake:	Cicero
Builder:	Hull
Launched:	1819
Fate:	Wrecked 1 July 1826
General characteristics
Tons burthen:	320^[1] (bm)