NRC5447 - Glass
Correio da Azia
Green bottle base and partial body
Site Area Code North West
Site Location near main coin concretion
Number of Items 1
Material Glass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 5447
ID 53704
Green bottle base and partial body
Site Area Code North West
Site Location near main coin concretion
Number of Items 1
Material Glass
Registration Number 5447
ID 53704
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...