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Daniel Woodriff

In 1808 Woodriff was appointed agent for prisoners of war at Forton, near Gosport.

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Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 tons of timber before sailing back to England via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro, arriving back at Spithead on 23 July 1804, completing a circumnavigation in ten months and three days.

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They were bound for Port Philip in the Bass Strait, on the southern extremity of Australia, with the intention of setting up a new settlement there under the command of David Collins.

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