NRC6148 - Copper/brass
Correio da Azia
Small tack (nail).
Site Area Code North West
Site Location Correio da Azia main wreck site.
Number of Items 1
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 6148
ID 114156
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Correio da Azia
1817 Emilla was dispatched to salvage the Correio da Azia. Capt. Pedro Jose da Silva Loureiro, Pilot Luis Beltrao
The Correio da Azia was ‘coming from Lisbon to Macau against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps’ (de Freitas 1816) when it ran aground on Ningaloo reef on 26 November, 1816. Established by the Portuguese in 1557 and returned to...