SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Otavi shipwreck in Namibia
August 27:
“This day in our shipwreck history”
1846: Courier, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked on the bar in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal whilst leaving the harbour. There was a westerly raging at the time and the captain insisted on leaving despite the Eliza, a vessel that drew less water than the Courier, already being stuck fast on the bar.
1868: Presumably heavy weather in East London in the Eastern Cape resulted in the disappearance of two vessels. Very little is known about these vessels and the events that resulted in their losses.
• Anna, a wooden surf boat; and
• Mendeep, a schooner.
1878: Stranger, this barque caught alight and was abandoned near Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape.
1888: Jane, the wooden-hulled barquentine wrecked during a south-easterly squall east of the Keurbooms River mouth near Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape. The wreck now lies in a gully at the beach by the Forest Hall Estate.
1955: Bender, this steam-powered trawler (ex-whaler) wrecked on Tsitsikamma Point in the Southern Cape on the South Coast.
1995: Ocean Plume, this prawn fishing vessel capsized in heavy seas about 10 kilometres east of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal with the loss of its crew of eight.
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