Description
- No capsule or label
- Burgundy/Rhône-shaped bottle is scratched
- Cork is intact and show no signs of leakage
- Ullage 3cm below cork
- The wine appears to have a thick, viscous quality
Unknown pre-1918 wine recovered from the wreck of the Kyarra SOLD
An unknown pre-1918 wine in a Burgundy/Rhône bottle from the wreck of the Kyarra.
The bottle contains dark (red?) wine.
The Kyarra was a 6,953 ton steel cargo and passenger luxury liner, built in Scotland in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Company. For ten years Kyarra sailed between Fremantle in Western Australia, where she was registered, and Sydney in New South Wales, carrying cargo and passengers.
On 5th May 1918, Kyarra was sailing from Tilbury to Devonport to embark civilian passengers and take on full general cargo. She was sunk by UB-57 near Swanage, Dorset, on 26th May 1918.
Kyarra’s wreck was discovered in the late 1960s by a member of the Kingston and Elmbridge British Sub-Aqua Club. The wreck, which lies one mile off Anvil Point, remains popular with divers.
The Kyarra was loaded with perfume, newspapers, Worcester sauce… and wine.
We don’t know what it is because the labels and capsules were washed away many years ago – but the cork might reveal its identity.
