 Also known as The Pepper Wreck, it is so called because its major cargo at the time was peppercorns of black pepper, "Piper nigrum", which carpeted the river and were harvested along with the fittings and other cargo by the population.The Museu Nacional de Arqueologia identified the debris on the bottom in 1993 and designated the site as São Julião da Barra 2 (SJB2).The ship was of a type called the ""nau"", a cargo vessel, used as an Indiaman.