a) 65 x White china fragments. b) 3 x Grey stoneware: large, dark salt-glazed fragments. c) 3 x China: w/ green/yellow pattern (lines). d) 1 x Terracotta fragment.
Site Area Code North West
Number of Items 72
Material CERAMICS
Registration Number 4104
ID 23772
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...