Daniel Woodriff
| Daniel Woodriff | |
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| Born |
17 November 1756 England |
| Died | 25 February 1842 (aged 85) England |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Royal Navy
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| Rank | Captain |
| Commands held | Calcutta |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Captain Daniel Woodriff CB (17 November 1756 – 25 February 1842) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. He made two voyages to Australia. He was Naval Agent on the convict transport Kitty in 1792, and in 1803 the captain of HMS Calcutta for David Collins' expedition to found a new settlement in Port Phillip.
Woodriff was commissioned as a lieutenant on 1 April 1783, and received promotion to the rank of commander on 18 September 1795, and to captain on 28 April 1802.
Towards the end of 1802 Woodriff was appointed to command of the Calcutta, a 50-gun ship armed en flûte, and fitted to transport convicts. They were bound for Port Phillip 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. Calcutta sailed from Spithead on 28 April 1803, in company with the storeship Ocean, calling at Rio de Janeiro in July, and the Cape of Good Hope in August; they arrived at their intended destination in October. Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 tons of timber. Whilst in Sydney, Woodriff and the crew of Calcutta assisted in suppressing the Castle Hill convict rebellion. For this service Woodriff received a 1,000-acre (400 ha) land grant near Penrith, New South Wales in 1804.
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