Cyrus (ship)

Several ships have been named Cyrus for Cyrus:

  • Cyrus (1800 whaler), was launched at Salem in 1792 or 1800 (records differ); The British captured her in 1803 and she became a whaler that made 17 whaling voyages between 1804 and 1853. She made one more mercantile voyage in 1854 and then disappears from Lloyd's Register.
    • This Cyrus should not be confused with the American whaler, Cyrus, of Nantucket, which sailed during the same era.[1] A bill of sale in the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library shows that a whaling vessel named Cyrus had several owners and was registered in London in 1916.[2] Several sources speak of a Cyrus and an incident at Pitcairn, but some call it a London whaler and others an American whaler.[2] However, testimony from the crew confirms this ship was sailing elsewhere under a different Captain.[3]
  • Cyrus (1811 ship) was launched at Whitby. She spent her early career as a transport. Then after the war she made one or more voyages to Bengal and Ceylon under a license from the British East India Company. After her return she traded between Great Britain and North America. She was wrecked at Quebec in November 1844.
  • On 23 December 1858 the brig Cyrus took shelter from a storm off Cape Flattery, Vancouver Island. She anchored in Port San Juan, but her anchor chain broke and she was driven ashore near the mouth of the Gordon river.[4]
  • Cyrus (1815 ship) was launched Kingston upon Hull in 1815. She sailed on annual voyages to Greenland as a whaler. She was lost in July 1823.
  • A Cyrus was wrecked at Hartlepool, England. 9 February 1861.[5]

See also
  • HMS Cyrus, any one of three vessels of the British Royal Navy

References
  1. "HAS A PITCAIRN BIBLE. – One of These Noted Books Is Owned by a Hartford Society" (PDF). The New York Times. New York: NYTC. January 17, 1897. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  2. "Manuscript Collections held at the Research Library". Nantucket Historical Association. 2011. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  3. "Correspondence Between the Consuls of the United States at Rio de Janeiro, &c, with the Secretary of State, on the Subject of the African Slave Trade". scholarship.rice.edu. 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  4. "Graveyard of the Pacific – The Shipwrecks of Vancouver Island". pacificshipwrecks.ca. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  5. "The Great Gale of 1861". Archived from the original on June 22, 2006. Retrieved February 3, 2009.
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