Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
RP4083C - Animal
Rapid
Bone fragment; burnt ?.
Site Area Code North West
Site Location Land — Miscellaneous material from sand dunes near Point Cloates
Number of Items 1
Material Animal
Museum Reference
Registration Number 4083
ID 24462
Status Commonwealth
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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