1811 shipwreck site of the Rapid, Ningaloo3D Model
The 1811 wreck site of the Rapid lost on the Ningaloo Reef near Point Cloates. https://www.divingwawrecks.com/rapid The site is currently covered by the WA Maritime Museum to preserve and stabilise the site, with only the two anchors exposed.
In 1978 a group of spearfisherman, including Frank and Barry Paxman, discovered an unknown wreck site that was littered with 18,540 Spanish silver coins. The site was later identified as the Boston owned America to China trader named the Rapid, skippered by Captain Henry Dorr. Intially carrying 280,000 American dollars when wrecked, the crew burnt the ship to the water line and sailed to Java in a 16 foot boat. Eventually they returned to the isolated site with a larger ship and recovered as much of the the coins and cargo as they could leaving almost 20,000 coins on the site before returning to America.
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