RP0 - Copper/brass
Rapid
Copper bolts, lots: Duplicate Registration: sort for location.
Site Area Code North West
Site Location site
Number of Items 1
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
ID 25603
Status Commonwealth
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
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...