RP3953 - Cargo
Rapid
Barrel staves, pieces 1 marked XV""""
Site Area Code North West
Site Location 26/28
Number of Items 13
Material Cargo
Museum Reference
Registration Number 3953
ID 14342
Status Commonwealth
Barrel staves, pieces 1 marked XV""""
Site Area Code North West
Site Location 26/28
Number of Items 13
Material Cargo
Registration Number 3953
ID 14342
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...