Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

RP4251C - Glass

Rapid

Dark glass bottle fragments: including 2 bottle bases and 7 necks.

Site Area Code North West

Number of Items 74

Material Glass

Museum Reference

Registration Number 4251

ID 24467

Status Commonwealth

Map of shipwreck

Rapid

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...