SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
January 29:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
Eduard Bohlen shipwreck in Namibia
1844: Josephine, this wooden sailing schooner (a slaver) was broken up in Table Bay in the Western Cape. It was one of three vessels captured by the HMS Thunderbolt and it was broken up as soon as they arrived in the Cape. There were 457 enslaved people on board when the HMS Thunderbolt took it as a prize.
1896: Saxon, this Portuguese iron steam-powered coaster foundered on a reef about 1 km south of the mouth of Kosi Bay in KwaZulu-Natal. It had just been sold to a new owner and was on its way to Mozambique for delivery when it wrecked. All crew and passengers made it off on the lifeboats and were safely landed at Delagoa Bay. It is the most northerly currently known wreck on the South African coastline and is a popular dive site.
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