1 complete bottle, 1 bottle w/ top missing, 1 bottle neck with lip missing (brown glass) and 1 green glass base, champagne style beer.
Site Area Code Mid-West
Number of Items 4
Material Glass
Registration Number 2438
ID 16464
Status Commonwealth
African was built under Special Survey at Sunderland in 1853. A timber ship, it was copper fastened and sheathed with yellow metal over felt. The owner was Captain J. Gibson. The Lloyd’s Registers of 1857 and 1861 show the Builder’s Old Measurement tonnage of this ship as being 780 and the tonnage under the new Act, which came into force on 1 January 1836, as being 888. As the African was...