Wine bottle

An onion bottle, with a wide shallow body, concave base, and short conical neck with string rim. The bottle was recovered from the wreck of HMS 'Firebrand', fireship of Sir Cloudesley Shovell's squadron, lost off the Scilly Islands, Oct 1707.

Object Details

ID: GGG0457
Type: Wine bottle
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Firebrand 1694 (HMS)
Date made: 1707
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 130 x 140 mm