Child’s Shoe ID: 1998.PM.M733

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Child’s leather shoe from the wreck of the Royal Adelaide.

ID: 1998.PM.M733

Collection: Royal Adelaide

Classification: passengers/crew

Measurements: length 120mm Width 50mm Height 50mm

Date made: unknown

Display: on display

Manufacturer/Creator: as yet unknown

Credit: Portland Museum Trust

One of several shoes and boots recovered from the Royal Adelaide, which, bound for Australia, was wrecked on Chesil Beach, 25th November 1872.

All but seven on board survived, although during the night, four people died from exposure having become drunk on the ship’s cargo of brandy, rum and wine washed up on the shore.