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From: "Julie Robinson" <>
Subject: RODNEY - WHICH RODNEY?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 22:45:47 +0100


Dear Sue and Paul,

Many thanks for your input. It was most helpful.

As you are both experts in this field it might be pertinent for me to confirm my knowledge of "Rodney" as known in the Sydney Shipping Gazette and in Bateson's "The Convict Ships", i.e. the "Rodney" built in Sunderland, Co. Durham for Messrs. Duncan Dunbar & Sons and which is the subject of three voyages with convicts and pensioner guards to van Diemen's Land/Tasmania, 1850, 1851, and 1852-53. Public Record Office/The National Archives at Kew, London has a reference for her first (1850) voyage as ADM 101/64 being Surgeon LeGrand's Journal and a photocopy of this being in my possession,
it states, on the front cover, that this is a journal of "Her Majesty's HIRED Convict Ship".

I am beginning to think that Mr Bateson, whom we have to thank for so much information, might have made an incorrect statement regarding this "Rodney" inasmuch that he advises we should not confuse her with "Devitt & Moore's crack passenger ship of the same name" which he implies is a contemporary vessel but not one and the same.
"The Times" newspaper advertisement of 22 April 1851 asks prospective travellers or persons with freight to despatch, to make further enquiries at 9 Billiter-street, London, the offices of Messrs Devitt & Moore. As the same advert. opens by stating that this "Rodney" belongs to Messrs Duncan Dunbar & Sons of Limehouse", I infer that Devitt & Moore are her owners' agents.

I shall continue with my enquiries.

Thanks once again.

Julie

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