[METTA CATHARINA]

Souvenir leather drinks mat presumably made from the recovered reindeer hide that the brigantine was carrying when it sank, 3¾ inches across

Die Frau Metta Catharina von Flensburg was a brigantine, a two-masted sailing ship. It was built in 1782 at Rønshoved on the north shore of Flensburg Fjord, now in Denmark. In December 1786 the Catharina was carrying a cargo of hemp and reindeer hide to Genoa from Saint Petersburg when it was wrecked near the Cornish shore. Miraculously the entire crew managed to escape before the Catharina sank in 30m of water under Raveness Point. in 2011, artefacts recovered from the Metta Catharina were put on display in a museum exhibition at Mount Edgcumbe House in Cornwall.

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Stock No:  42731      £25

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