Hello Adi and Peter Yes you are right Adi, I knew the family had 'survived' the trip, in fact I have only just discovered the report of the 'Nancy' being lost but then found the report from Rio saying they were safe but had run into bad weather round Cape Horn. I remain curious to know if they did abandon ship and then return to it or if the Franch vessel saw no one on the decks so assumed all were lost (how close would the French ship have gone to check her out?) or if the French ship read the incorrect name and if so which ship was lost... so many questions and so few answers!!! Surprisingly the family made another trip to and from Australia, so the rough trip did not deter them from a couple more long sea trips... braver than me, the longest sea trip I have done is from Cape Town to the island of St Helena and return and we were lucky enough to have a smooth trip. Thanks everyone All the best Caroline On 10-Jul-13 4:07 AM, Mme_N_Carmichael wrote: > Thank you, Peter. I didn't know that. Perhaps this is the exception that proves the rule? Perhaps this is a second ex-RN Henry Pryce? But ... I think that it is a bit of a blind alley. From Caroline's first post, I got the impression that her main persons-of-interest were passengers on that Sydney-Rio-London voyage and that she was chasing down the abandonment for human interest filler to their story. > > Regards, > Adi > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Peter Beeston <[email protected]> >> To: Mme_N_Carmichael <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 2:25:58 AM >> Subject: Re: [MAR] Ship Nancy, Captain Henry Pryce, 1831 >> >> >> Generally speaking, all officers whose biographies are included in O'Byrne >> were alive in the 1840s. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Author of "Pounding Along to Singapore, a history of the 2/20 Battalion AIF", available from [email protected] "From Baron to Battler, the story of Dr CUD Schrader of Walcha, 1860-1900" available from <www.smashwords.com/books/view/129058> "The Schrader Letters, 1871-1896" available from <www.smashword.com/books/view/109893>

Hello Listers Thanks to help received form this list I now know Captain Henry Pryce, the commander of the 'Nancy' sailing from Sydney to London in 1831 had also commanded HEIC ships. I have Farrington's Catalogue of EIC Ship's journals and logs 1600-1834 which is sorted by ship but I don't have the data sorted by Captain. Rather than trawl ship by ship through the 700+ pages, I wonder does anyone have such an officers list and if so please could you possibly advise which HEIC Ships Henry Pryce did command, then I can go back into my book and extract the specifics. I'm trying to work out if the family would have known him from their trips to and from St Helena. Many thanks Caroline