SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Shawnee wreck south of Walvis Bay, Namibia
September 10:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1844: Bella Angela, this wooden sailing barque was captured by the HMS Dolphin and started being broken up in Table Bay in the Western Cape on this day, with its hull and fittings auctioned off on the 27th of September.
1895: G M Tucker, this vessel wrecked in the Old Harbour on the Buffalo River in East London in the Eastern Cape. Very little is known about this vessel.
1960: SBA 305, this barge wrecked off the Railway Jetty in Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape during rough weather.
2004: A Ryan Blake Air Charter Fairchild SA228-AC Metro III (registration no. ZS-OLS) was forced into making an emergency landing on a farm near George Airport in the Western Cape after encountering a bird strike which resulted in the loss of the right engine during the landing approach. Both pilots survived but the plane was damaged beyond repair.
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