American whaler Mercury hailed according to the newspaper The Polynesian dated 20 October 1849

The New Pictorial and Illustrated Family Magazine established for the diffusion of useful knowledge, 

vol. III. Robert Sears editor, New York 1846.

An item reported that the American whaler Seine spoke in the Sea of Ochotsk on 21 August the whaling bark Mercury of Stonington 8 whales that season.