SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
January 30:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1878: Wheatlandside, this fully-rigged wooden ship wrecked in a south-easterly gale on North End Beach in Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. On the 16th of December it struck a reef whilst entering the harbour, which caused a hole in its bottom. On this day, a strong-south-easterly gale (south-westerly in some reports) caused its cables to part, and it wrecked on the beach.
1881: Rosalie, this sailing brig wrecked near Salt Vlei Point in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape. There is however a single mentioning of a Rosalie being active on the 29th of April 1881, so this may have just been a grounding event and more research will be required to determine whether it wrecked on this day.
1898: Franze, this steel sailing barque was caught out in a cyclone, which heeled the vessel over until it had taken on enough water, and it foundered south of Cape Padrone in the Eastern Cape. Of the crew of 14, three refused to take to the boats and presumably drowned when the barque foundered.
1945: RAF Consolidated Catalina (registration no. JX367), this seaplane was engaged in a training flight at Lake Mzingazi in Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal when it bounced on the water whilst attempting to land, and then crashed into the trees when the captain attempted to land it on dry land instead.
Of the crew of five, three were seriously injured and the two pilots sustained fatal injuries. The image is of the seaplane after having crashed.
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