RP3339 - Slate
Rapid
Slate fragments.
Site Area Code North West
Site Location 36 /
Number of Items 7
Material Slate
Museum Reference
Registration Number 3339
ID 13732
Status Commonwealth
Slate fragments.
Site Area Code North West
Site Location 36 /
Number of Items 7
Material Slate
Registration Number 3339
ID 13732
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...