NRC5445 - Lead artefact
Correio da Azia Wreck
Sounding Lead
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Material Lead
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Number of Items 1
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Site Area Code North West
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Site Location S 22 deg 51.798 min E 113 deg 45.062 min
Museum Reference
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artefact NRC5445 - Lead
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Registration Number 5445
Artefact information
| artefact | NRC5445 - Lead |
|---|---|
| Ship | Correio da Azia |
| Registration Number | 5445 |
| Description | Sounding Lead |
| Material | Lead |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Site Area Code | North West |
| Site Location | S 22 deg 51.798 min E 113 deg 45.062 min |
| Modification date | Fri, 2011-12-09 |
| Date Registered | Mon, 2009-06-29 |
| URL | http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/artefacts/nrc5445-lead |
Correio da Azia
The Correio da Azia built in Portugal, owned by Joao Nunes da Silveira. The Master of the Correio da Azia was Joao Joaquim de Freitas, The Correio da Azia was lost 1816/11/25 at Point Cloates.
1817 Emilla was dispatched to salvage the Correio da Azia. Capt. Pedro Jose da Silva Loureiro, Pilot Luis Beltrao The Correio da Azia was ‘coming from Lisbon to Macau against weather, seas and wind, fire, shallows and coastal dangers and errors of maps’ (de Freitas 1816) when it ran aground on Ningaloo reef on 26 November, 1816. Established by the Portuguese in 1557 and returned to China in...
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