Papers of the master mariner Thomas Richardson Lickis (1822-1894), including business letters, receipts from provision merchants, charter parties, indentures, testimonials and various certificates. There is a book of disbursements and portage bills for the brig SIR ROBERT CAMPBELL (1843) of Whitehaven and the barque JOSEPH TAYLOR (1852) of Liverpool; and a carte-de-visite photograph of Lickis taken at Buenos Aires. There are particulars of masts and yards for a schooner, 1855, relating to Thomas Lickis, sailmaker of Stockton-on-Tees; and some discharge certificates relating to Leonard Stone of Mistley (born 1871).

There are four printed books:

‘Code of Signals for the Use of Vessels in The Merchant Service’ by Captain Frederick Marryat, Royal Navy (Tenth Edition), J.M. Richardson, London, 1847. The annotations include an index to frequently used flag signals and a reference to the first distinguishing pendant of the barque ANTIGUA (1858) of Whitehaven.
‘Lunar and Horary Tables…’ by David Thomson , Inventor of the Longitude Scale (Twentieth Edition), William H. Allen & Co., London, 1840.
‘The Seaman’s New Daily Assistant…’ by J.W. Noble (Twentieth Edition), Charles Wilson, late J.W. Norie & Wilson, London, 1870.
‘The Book of Common Prayer…’ published by the University of Cambridge, Pitt Press, Cambridge, 1834.

Administrative / biographical background
Lickis was born at Hull in Yorkshire in 1822. After attending Hull Trinity House Marine School, he went to sea as an apprentice on the brig RHINE (1827), owned by Thomas Pressick and employed in the Baltic trade. He was first mate and then master of the barque MERSEY (1847) of London, in the Brazil and California trades, between 1848 and 1852. When his Master’s Certificate of Service was issued in 1852 (number 43005), he had been an apprentice, mate and master for fifteen years and was living in Camden Town, London. Between 1863 and 1865 Lickis was master of the brig SIR ROBERT CAMPBELL (1843) of Whitehaven and then the barque JOSEPH TAYLOR (1852) of Liverpool. He died at Merton in Surrey in 1894.