SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
November 16:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1906: Star of Peace, this steel steam-powered fishing trawler wrecked in dark and hazy weather at Jessie se Baai, near Quoin Point in the Western Cape. It struck a submerged rock and immediately foundered, with the crew safely getting to Gansbaai in the lifeboat.
The Meisho Maru No. 38 (1982) taking a battering from the sea in 1984, two years after it had wrecked
1982: Meisho Maru No. 38, this motor-powered fishing trawler wrecked about 1km north-west of the Southern Tip of Africa, at L’Agulhas/Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape.
The bow section is all that remains visible above the water of the Meisho Maru No. 38 (1982) today
It is still visible from the shore today, although it is breaking up rapidly. It has been the subject of many photographers since its wrecking.
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