Several ships have been named ''Cyrus'' for

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: * , 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 ''

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''. ** This ''Cyrus'' should not be confused with the American whaler, ''Cyrus'', of Nantucket, which sailed during the same era. 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. Several sources speak of a ''Cyrus'' and an incident at

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, but some call it a London whaler and others an American whaler. However, testimony from the crew confirms this ship was sailing elsewhere under a different Captain. * was launched at

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. 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

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. 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

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. She anchored in Port San Juan, but her anchor chain broke and she was driven ashore near the mouth of the Gordon river. * was launched

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in 1815. She sailed on annual voyages to Greenland as a whaler. She was lost in July 1823. * A ''Cyrus'' was wrecked at

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, England. 9 February 1861.

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