Copper (concretion only) with nails
Site Area Code North West
Site Location Grid 20 under hull in hole next to keel
Number of Items 2
Material Concretions
Registration Number 5494
ID 15249
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...