SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Zeila shipwreck in Namibia
June 30:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1784: Hoop, this wooden Dutch flute ran ashore and wrecked somewhere in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1827: Berwick, this wooden British brig wrecked near the Elands River mouth close to the border between the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape. A week before it wrecked, it experienced rough seas which swept away its bulwarks and quarter boats, damaged the rudder, and nearly destroyed the cabin. The pumps had become choked with its cargo of pepper, so the crew started throwing cargo overboard in attempts to lighten the ship. They managed to get it to anchor near the shore in the modern day Tsitsikamma National Park and a repaired longboat was launched which carried 43 lives to shore. The rough seas made it impossible to return to the anchored Berwick and it smashed against the rocks with the remaining 15 lives on board perishing.
1962: Chaka 2, a SAAF North American Harvard IIA training plane collided with a SAA Douglas DC-4 passenger plane and crashed near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, with both pilots bailing out safely and the DC-4 safely landing at Durban with only minor damage to its tail fin.
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