NRC5380 - Copper/brass
Correio da Azia
Corroded copper alloy fastening. Found adjacent to the gudgeon on the wreck, so may have been part of the ship’s steering apparatus.
Site Area Code North West
Number of Items 1
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 5380
ID 111784
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...
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