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Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies

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Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies

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Overview

Raisonnable — Nelson Entry 1771 already records the 64-gun entry. After Raisonnable was paid off, Southey says the Triumph guardship was too inactive for a boy, so Nelson was sent a merchant voyage. This note covers that first voyage only.1

The Voyage

Southey names the master: Mr. John Rathbone, an excellent seaman, who had served as master’s-mate under Capt. Suckling in the Dreadnought. Nelson went to the West Indies in that merchant-ship and returned a practical seaman.2

The later Arctic coxswain posting stays on Carcass Coxswain — Phipps Arctic Voyage 1773. A named merchant-ship and a voyage year stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE unless a page states them.

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Footnotes

  1. Raisonnable paid off after the Falkland Islands dispute; Triumph 74 as a Thames guardship: @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 9 (1813). ↩

  2. “Nelson was therefore sent a voyage to the West Indies in a merchant-ship, commanded by Mr. John Rathbone, an excellent seaman, who had served as master’s-mate under Capt. Suckling in the Dreadnought.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 9 (1813). Do not invent the merchant-ship’s name or a voyage year. ↩

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