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Admiral Rodney - a general history

Official Number 23794; Code Letters NTGD.

Owners: May 1846 Thomas Cummings Gibson, London; January 1851 (purchased for £1050) West Hartlepool Shipping Co. West Hartlepool; by September 1854 Lynn.

Masters: 1846-48 Poskett; 1849 Needham; 1850 Cornforth; 1851 Richard Proctor (d. 1851); 1851-55 Reed; 1856 Harrison; 1859 Millington; 1860 Mellanby.

Master Richard Proctor of West Hartlepool died 12 August 1851 aged 36 at St Ives while on board Admiral Rodney when she was en-route from near Belfast to Middlesbrough he was ‘attacked with brain fever.’

West Hartlepool Shipping Company Profit on vessel by March 1853 was £35.10s.10d

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