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Henry Raffin was transported on the Claudine, departing 19th Aug 1829 and arriving 6th Dec 1829 with 180 passengers.
The 'Claudine' was an East Indiaman built in Calcutta in 1811 from teak wood with a tonnage of 452 tons. In 1820 she ran from London to Hobart Town, Sydney, Batavia and back to England. After leaving Sydney on 10 May 1820 under the command of John Welsh, she discovered the Claudine Reef in the Coral Sea, before making her way past Murray Island in Torres Strait on her way to Batavia. The Claudine made two voyages to Australia as a convict transport. Departing Woolwich 24 August 1821 mastered by John Crabtree with Henry Ryan as ship's surgeon. She arrived in Port Dalrymple, van Diemen's Land after a passage of 113 days via Teneriffe, on 15 December, landing 40 convicts. She then sailed on to Hobart Town and landed the remaining 119 male convicts, one prisoner having died en route . On 24 August 1829 the Claudine departed London, arriving in Sydney on 6 December 1829 after a voyage of 104 days; her Master was William Heathorne, the surgeon William H Trotman. On this voyage she sailed with 180 prisoners and their guard; two prisoners died en route. she then sailed on to Madras on 30 December. The Claudine returned to merchant service and on Monday 21-22 November 1840 under the command of captain Brewer was deliberately beached with another East Indiaman 'Westminster' during a storm off the Kent coast near Margate. This stranding was the subject of a famous engraving by William Henry Bartlett and a pencil and chalk sketch by J.M.W. Turner. The 'Westminster' successfully unloaded 6000 chests of tea into two steamers which delivered it to the East India Docks and was refloated on 7 December. 'Claudine' which was beached onshore unloaded into 200 carts the following day 23rd November and was then refloated on a spring tide after 7 December. Both ships having been dismasted in the storm, were repaired and put back into the trade. The Claudine appears to have been sent to the wreckers in 1849.
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| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 89, Class and Piece Number HO11/7, Page Number 171 (88) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Old Bailey: HENRY RAFFIN, Theft > stealing from master, 9th April 1829. Reference Number: t18290409-309 Offence: Theft > stealing from master Verdict: Guilty Punishment: Transportation HENRY RAFFIN was indicted for stealing, on the 1st of March , 5 pairs of shoes, value 9s. 6d., and I pair of boots, value 16s., the goods of Joseph Preston , his master . JOSEPH PRESTON . I keep a shop in Seacoal-lane -The prisoner was in my employ on the 1st of March, and on the 3d of March I missed my boots and shoes, which were safe in my shop about twelve o'clock on the 2d of March; I was in the habit of taking my goods home at night, and when I went that night I could not get admittance - the next morning I sent my lad for the goods; he came back, and gave me information - I went, and we could not get in; I went with an officer in the evening, about ten o'clock - the property was gone; we raised a ladder, and found the prisoner in a top room. Cross-examined by MR. BODKIN. Q. How long has the shop been opened? A. I think about a fortnight; it had been empty, but I do not know that loose persons went to sleep there - the prisoner used to sleep there; I had his direction from his brother, and had him taken into custody - I live in Moor-lane. CHARLES SENIOR . I am a boot and shoemaker. On the 2d or 3d of March, a man came into my shop with five pairs of mended-up shoes, and asked my 6s. for them - I gave him 5s.; on the 5th of March the prosecutor came and claimed one pair of them; I bought them of a man a good deal like the prisoner, but cannot swear it was him. Cross-examined by MR. BODKIN. Q Are you in the habit of buying of many persons who hawk shoes about? A. Yes. JAMES BARNET . On the 2d of March, in the evening, I bought this pair of boots, but I do not know of whom - it was a person I never saw before; I do not think the prisoner is the person - I said so before the Magistrate, because the person - I bought them of was very dirty; he was about the prisoner's size - I do not think he is the man. ANTHONY REPTON . I took the prisoner in Maidenhead-court; I received these boots from Barnet, who said he bought them of the prisoner - the prisoner made no answer. GUILTY . Aged 23. Transported for Seven Years . 1836: TOL Pitt Town 1842: TOL Paterson 31/8/1846: COF No further records found.
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