California Ship Registry

Vessel

Mercury

Mercury: 25 recorded visits to the Californias, 1806 to 1826, calling at San Luis Obispo, Santa Bárbara, San Juan Capistrano, Trinidad. Flag United States. Every visit cited to its source.

Flag
United States
Recorded span
1806 to 1826
Recorded visits
25
Name as written
Mercury (14), Mercurio (10), MERCURIO, Mercurio (1)
Anchorages
San Luis Obispo, Santa Bárbara, San Juan Capistrano, Trinidad, Refugio, San Quintín, Bodega, San Pedro, Fort Ross
Record status
reviewed

Recorded visits

1806 · San Luis Obispo
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1806-1807: San Luis Obispo 1806

1806 · Santa Bárbara
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1806-1807: Santa Bárbara 1806

1806 · San Juan Capistrano
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1806-1807: San Juan Capistrano 1806

1808 · Trinidad
port-call alta otter arrived

Eayrs's Mercury touched Trinidad (and Bodega) on the 1808-09 RAC contract voyage

1809 · San Luis Obispo
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1809-1810: San Luis Obispo 1809

1809 · Refugio
offshore-presence alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1809-1810: Refugio 1809

1809 · Santa Bárbara
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1809-1810: Santa Bárbara 1809

1809 · San Quintín
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1809-1810: San Quintín 1809

1812 · Bodega
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1812: Bodega 1812

1812 · San Luis Obispo
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1812: San Luis Obispo 1812

1812 · Refugio
offshore-presence alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1812: Refugio 1812

1812 · San Quintín
port-call? alta otter arrived

[Ogden itinerary] Mercury, 1812: San Quintín 1812

1813-06-08
unlocated alta contraband seized

'Captura de fragata *Mercurio*': Arrillaga's order to investigate Noé's prize — reconnoiter the captured Anglo-American

1813-06-19 · Santa Bárbara
port-call? alta otter seized

THE *MERCURIO*/EAYRS AFFAIR — crew depositions. By Arrillaga's order, José Argüello takes declarations from the Anglo-Am

1813-06-22 to 1813-06-26 · San Pedro
port-call? alta contraband|warship

Per the Governor's order, furnish volunteers to garrison the frigate *Mercurio* (Don Nicolás Noé) from San Pedro to Mont

1814-04-24
unlocated alta seized

Legal ruling on the *Mercurio* seizure: the *Flora* could not lawfully seize her as a corsair — exercising the *derecho

1814-10-30
unlocated alta seized

Provisioning costs of the *Mercurio* prisoners: per the Consejo de Presidios order (18 Sep 1813), the Habilitación suppo

1815-02-20
unlocated alta seized

Legal dictamen on the *Mercurio*: re Eayrs (owner, seized in the SB Channel by Noé); provisioning for him + family + 4 s

1815-03-08
unlocated alta seized

Per the reports, acted on provisioning Jorge Hayes [Eayrs] & holding the corvette *Mercurio* pending the Govt's ruling o

1815-03-08 · Fort Ross
port-call? alta

Certified copy of the *Mercurio* dictamen (cross-ref tomo p. 374). [dup]

1816-04-24
unlocated alta seized

José de la Cruz → Gov. Alta Calif.: forwards the decree on the capture of the Anglo-American corvette 'Mercurio' by the

1816-08
unlocated alta seized|departed

The Indian woman captured on the 'Mercurio' with Capt. [George] Ayres and their daughter: María Antonia de la Ascensión

1818-01-07
unlocated alta

José Darío Argüello → Gov. Solá: forwards the representation of the American corvette 'Mercurio' (the subject sought not

1825
unlocated alta

[Bancroft list 1825-30] Mercury: usa 340t Wm Austin master;

1826-11-01 · Santa Bárbara
port-call? alta whaler arrived|departed

Movement of ships (Oct 1826). Entradas: *Courrier*, *Washington*, *Solitude*, *Rover*, Eng. *Inca*, whalers *Illeri*(?)/

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