JM492 - Glass
James Matthews
Wine bottle: dark olive green w/ down-tooled lip, v-shaped rim and irregular rounded shoulders. Rounded resting point w/ conical basal profile no pontil scar and blue basal decoration.
Site Area Code Local
Number of Items 1
Material Glass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 492
ID 10850
Status Commonwealth
The wreck was located in 1973 on
the north side of Woodman Point in
Cockburn Sound, by members of the
Underwater Explorers Club (UEC) who
were conducting an underwater line
search as part of their wreck research
programme.
Archival research revealed that
James Matthews was a snow-brig of 107
tons, registered at the Port of London.
The...
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