Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

RP2194 - Stoneware

Rapid

Jug base, saltglaze stoneware. Dipped in deep brown at base; exterior salt glaze abraded or absent; interior dark brown stain. Possibly made by Charlestown potter Frederick Carpenter c. 1801–1812. (Base of RP 3290)

Site Area Code North West

Number of Items 1

Material Stoneware

Museum Reference

Registration Number 2194

ID 15473

Status Commonwealth

Artefacts

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...

Continue reading about the Rapid