Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

RP3609 - Rope/leather/etc.

Rapid

Shoe: insole sections, adult, rounded toe, leather. Grain side upwards. Stitching holes on underside. MONITORED FOR SHRINKAGE BY KK. (ME 3609)

Site Area Code North West

Site Location 34/36

Number of Items 2

Material Rope/leather/etc.

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Registration Number 3609

ID 14000

Status Commonwealth

An American China trader wrecked at Ningaloo reef in 1811. The first example of an outwardbound American China trader to be examined from the archaeological perspective. Reported in the Columbian Sentinel dated 3 August 1811 to have had
$280 000 in specie on its outward journey from Boston.
Rapid departed Boston for Canton on 28 September 1810. After rounding the
Cape of...

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RP3609 - Rope/leather/etc.

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Rapid