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John Parker (whaling master)
John Parker (1803-1867) was a whaler and, according to the 1861 census form completed when he was master of the whale ship ''Lady Seale'', was born at Grimsby, Lincolnshire. However it was as a whaling master of Hull that he is especially remembered. He was one of the most successful and intrepid arctic whalers to sail from that port in the nineteenth century. The products of the whaling trade such as oil and whalebone (baleen) were essential to the British economy during this period and the rigours of life on board a whale ship in the Greenland fisheries produced a particularly hardy and efficient breed of sailor.
==A remarkable career==
Captain Parker commenced his seafaring career in 1815 and was a commander by 1831.〔Hall, Charles Francis, 1865. Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux.... New York, p.156.〕 Never losing a ship, he had no chronometer but relied on dead reckoning to reach his destination.〔Hall, Charles Francis, 1865. Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux.... New York, p.156.〕 He could also be considered an explorer as in his journeys he would almost certainly have visited places which had not been seen before by anyone other than the indigenous Inuit (or Eskimos as they were then called). Parker's Bay, latitude 62.48 north by 64.55 west was named after him.〔Hall, Charles Francis, 1865. Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux.... New York, Footnote, p.344.〕 Captain Parker commanded the whale ship ''Truelove'' continuously for sixteen years in addition to other vessels such as ''Emma'' and ''Harmony''.〔Credland, Arthur G.The Hull Whaling trade, An Arctic Enterprise.Hutton Press Ltd., Beverley,1995, ISBN 1 872167 73 X, App.3, p.138, App. 8, pp.149-150.〕〔Ross, William Gillies, This Distant and Unsurveyed Country...1857-1859.McGill-Queens Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7735-1674-3,, pp.xxvi, 37 and 41.〕 When captain of the latter ship she was so severely damaged by the ice that he had her hull bound with chains, in which condition he sailed her safely back home to England. An exceptional whaler who, according to William Scoresby, in 1833 caught 28 whales between Cape York and Cape Kater, in Prince Regent Inlet.〔Simmonds, P.L.,FRGS, London 1860. The Arctic Regions and Polar Discoveries during the Nineteenth Century, p. 238.〕
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