NRC5445 - Lead
Correio da Azia
Sounding Lead
Site Area Code North West
Site Location S 22 deg 51.798 min E 113 deg 45.062 min
Number of Items 1
Material Lead
Museum Reference
Registration Number 5445
ID 53702
Shipwreck Databases
Western Australian Museum
Correio da Azia
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...