Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

RP4112a - Fruit

Rapid

Almonds fragments x8. [ 8 whole to NM].

Site Area Code North West

Site Location 22 - 24 S

Number of Items 16

Material Fruit

Museum Reference

Registration Number 4112

ID 14500

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Rapid

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...