SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Kolmanskop wreck in Namibia
August 13:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1852: Bodiam Castle, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked at Struispunt, just south of Arniston/Waenhuiskrans in the Western Cape. The captain, 4 men, and a boy lost their lives.
1856: Wanderer, this schooner wrecked near Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape.
1867: Henry Douse, this wooden-hulled brigantine wrecked in a south-easterly gale near East London in the Eastern Cape.
1880: Kosmopolit, this sailing barque was abandoned at sea after it sprang a leak near Cape St. Francis in the Eastern Cape. All were rescued by the barque Empire and it is assumed that it foundered shortly after.
1904: Penguin, this iron-hulled steam-powered coaster foundered 12 km offshore from Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal.
1954: Uni 12, this steam powered whaler wrecked after losing its propeller and being driven ashore, out of control, near Umdoni Point in KwaZulu-Natal.
1958: Swazi Coast, this steam-powered coaster was pulled from service, hulked, and then scuttled several years later on this day about 6 km west of Hout Bay in the Western Cape. It was used as a target for the SA Air Force Shackletons to practice airdropping depth charges.
1974: Oranjeland, this motor-powered freighter wrecked after running aground in front of the East London esplanade in the Eastern Cape shortly after exiting the harbour in a north-westerly gale and suffering complete power failure. It had no reason to enter East London other than dropping off the crew of the Produce, which was rescued two days earlier from Aliwal Shoal. It was visible for several months and was quite the sight from the esplanade. By 1975, after many attempts to pull it off, its back broke and it was abandoned. In 1989 it was extensively salvaged, with approximately 3000 tons of granite being salved from the wreck. It was eventually cut to pieces, and today the outline of its hull is only rarely visible from the surface during a spring tide with its deepest part lying at about 9 m in depth.
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