Rodney was an iron-hulled clipper ship that was built in Sunderland in 1874 and wrecked on the Cornish coast in 1901.

William Pile, Junior built Rodney in Sunderland, County Durham.

Rodney beat her own record five years later from The Lizard to Sydney under Captain Barrett, arriving in 67 days.

On that voyage Rodney raced with the clipper Cutty Sark, the two shifted positions and passed each other numerous times.

[3] On 1 November 1895 Rodney lost her lion figurehead in a gale in the English Channel while en route from Gravesend, Kent to Sydney, New South Wales.

[1][6] On 7 December 1901 she was sailing from Iquique, Chile to France with a cargo of nitrate when she was wrecked at Downderry on the coast of Cornwall.