CISSY
Shipbuildervessel built by
DUTHIE
(Footdee, Aberdeen)
DateJuly 1859
Object NameCLIPPER
MediumWOOD
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 171' x breadth 30' x depth 18.5'
gross tonnage 649 tons
gross tonnage 649 tons
Object numberABDSHIP000529
Keywords
Official Number: 27911
Subsequent Names: GENEVIEVE (1875)
Fate: unknown, last in Lloyd's 1879 (G170).
Propulsion: Sail
Description: Ship rigged clipper, 3 masts, poop deck 51', forecastle 32'.
Owners:
1860: Dunn & Co., registered at London
1861-74: Temperley, London
1875-79: J. B. Miege; registered at Havre
Masters:
1860: Master R. Coppin
1861-74: Master T. Spencer
1875-79: Master J. J. Lepretre
Voyages (from Lloyd's Register):
1860: Aberdeen - Australia
1861: London - Australia
1863-66: London - China
1867-69: London - New Zealand
1871-73: London - China
1873: London - New Zealand
General History:
08/02/1860:
CISSY, ship, from London for Hobart Town [Tasmania], 4 January 2-45N, 22.10W [off West Africa].
(Aberdeen Journal)
28/07/1860:
Only departure for London since our last report is clipper ship CISSY, Captain Copping which left this port 17 June with upwards of 650 bales of wool and 70 tons of sperm oil with a large quantity of horns and hooves. By this vessel also the consignment of 114 pieces of wood has been made by Dr. Crowther with a view to our indigenous hardwoods being tested in the shipyards and large public works in England.
(Melbourne Argus)
18/12/1860:
By a private letter from Captain Copping of the ship CISSY, whose arrival at home was announced yesterday, we learn that his protracted passage home of 115 days has occasioned by a prevalence of easterly gales between this port and Cape Horn, off where he did not arrive until he had been out 54 days [...] large quantities of ice were fallen in with on the passage and the passengers suffered severely from the cold.
(Hobart Mercury)
02/10/1867:
CISSY, ship, from London to New Zealand, 2 August at Table Bay.
(Aberdeen Journal)
07/10/1868:
CISSY, ship, for Hong Kong 20 August 0.12N, 25W [mid Atlantic off W. Africa].
(Aberdeen Journal)
26/09/1871:
Sydney Sept. 25 - the CISSY, ship, from China, has brought eight hundred tons of sugar.
(Brisbane Courier)
22/04/1874:
The ship CISSY, being short-handed, was offering £8 per month for the voyage to England, and even at that rate good men were not forth-coming. The late successful movement of the seamen's unions, by which an advance of £1 per month was gained, has created a spirit of independence among seamen which is steadily gaining ground... men who came out from England, especially single men, shipping for a long and stormy voyage of several months, hardly seeing land all the time and receiving wages of £3 to £3.15.0 per month, cannot be easily induced to accept even the high rates of the clipper ships homeward bound [...] for if they stop in the colonies they can get twice, often three times, the monthly wages of homeward vessels by shipping on coastal steamers and traders which are seldom 24 hrs out of port and are not nearly so hard worked.
(Hobart Mercury)
10/10/1876:
Havre, 8 October - the GENEVIEVE (French Ship), from Nieu Dieppe for Batavia, has put in here in distress.
(Liverpool Mercury)
