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RP3843 - Rope/leather/etc.

Rapid

Shoe: adult, sole (or clumped sole), leather. Lt foot (?) Peg holes on heel section. Stitching holes around edge. Broad, rounded toe. MONITORED FOR SHRINKAGE BY KK.

Site Area Code North West

Site Location 28

Number of Items 1

Material Rope/leather/etc.

Museum Reference

Registration Number 3843

ID 14233

Status Commonwealth

Artefacts

Map of shipwreck

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...

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