Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

RP5759 - Armament

Rapid

Cannon Fragments

Site Area Code North West

Number of Items 5

Material Armament

Museum Reference

Registration Number 5759

ID 110443

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...