NRC5450 - Earthenware
Correio da Azia
Ceramic jar fragment
Site Area Code North West
Site Location under cannon 1
Number of Items 1
Material Earthenware
Museum Reference
Registration Number 5450
ID 53707
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Correio da Azia
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...