Cicero (ship)

Several ships have been named Cicero after the Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher Cicero:

  • Cicero (1796 ship) was launched at Sunderland and initially sailed as a West Indiaman. She was briefly captured in 1799. She went whale hunting both in the Northern Whale Fishery (1803-1808), and the Southern Whale Fishery (1816-1823). She capsized at Limerick in September 1832 and was condemned there.
  • Cicero (1799 ship), of 227 tons (bm), was built in the Smith Yard in Boston.
  • Cicero (1819 ship) was launched at Hull as a whaler. She made six full voyages to the Greenland whale fishery and was lost in July 1826 on her seventh.
  • Cicero (1822 ship), of 226 or 252 tons (bm),was launched at Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Between 1831 and 1882 she made 18 voyages as a whaler. She was abandoned and broken up in 1883.[1]
  • Cicero (1861) was an iron ship of 1130 tons (NRT) and 1057 tons under deck, launched at Liverpool by Thomas Vernon & Son, Liverpool. Cicero transferred her registry to Germany.[2] On 11 November 1890 she left Shields with a cargo of coal for Valparaiso and was not heard from thereafter.[3]

See also

Citations
  1. American Offshore Whaling: Voyages – Cicero.
  2. Lloyd's Register (1891–92), Vol. 2, Sailing vessels, Seq.№C926.
  3. "Missing Vessels." Times, 25 June 1891, p. 11. The Times Digital Archive. Accessed 20 May 2019.
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