Namibia: West Coast shipwrecks: "Cawdor Castle" & "Chamarel" | Кораблекрушения у западного побережья Намибии
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11. "Cawdor Castle" wreck
Date: 30.07.1925
The Cawdor Castle was stranded on 30 July 1925 and its wreck is located south of the famous Eduard Bohlen wreck. Hundreds of Germans were deported on Cawdor Castle in 1919 when South Africa had taken full control over the German South West Africa (presently Namibia). Interestingly enough, Cawdor Castle cargo included large number of whiskey crates.
12. "Chamarel" wreck
Date: 09.08.2012
Chamarel was a French cable laying vessel caught fire on 08 August 2012 and was drifting off Namibia, abandoned by crew. Fire broke out when vessel was 68 miles north of Henties Bay while laying cable from Cape Town to Europe. Chamarel crew (56 people) was rescued by Namibian patrol boat Nataneul Maxwilili and brought to Walvis Bay. No injuries or casualties were reported. Chamarel was finally stranded 30 km off Henties Bay on 10 August 2012. Resolve Salvage & Fire Inc. undertook the wreck removal. Chamarel was pulled to the beach using a total of 13 chain pullers. The scrapping teams dismantled the 5000 mt of hull into smaller pieces. All scrap pieces were sold to a local scrapper for final processing. Resolve fully completed the wreck removal in July 2013.
Chamarel's technical specifications: 135 meters (442 ft 11 in) long, 18 meters (59 ft 1 in) wide. Gross tonnage: 8,575, deadweight tonnage: 5,900 tons. Maximum speed: 12.9 knots (23.9 km/h), average speed: 11.2 knots (20.7 km/h).
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