Thursday, 3 October 2024

South Africa: Belleisle & Alice shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

July 15: 

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1849: Belleisle/Belle Isle, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked in a south-easterly gale on rocks in St. Sebastian Bay, near the Breede River mouth in the Western Cape.

A modern day aerial view of the town of Witsand with the Breede River mouth flowing into St. Sebastian Bay

1901: Alice, this vessel wrecked near Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Very little is known about it.

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