NRC5668 - Copper/brass
Correio da Azia
Nails of varying sizes (small).
Site Area Code North West
Number of Items 11
Material Copper/brass
Museum Reference
Registration Number 5668
ID 112096
Nails of varying sizes (small).
Site Area Code North West
Number of Items 11
Material Copper/brass
Registration Number 5668
ID 112096
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...