SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Remains of the Shir Yib wreck
August 23:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1673: Zoetendal, this wooden-hulled Dutch flute wrecked between Struisbaai and De Mond in the Western Cape with a cargo of rice. In total, 46 survivors reached Cape Town, with four lives being lost, but not all as a direct result of the wrecking. Whilst enduring hardships in attempting to reach Cape Town overland, one man was killed by an elephant. One man who strayed from the group reached Cape Town on the 3rd of October and assistance was dispatched almost immediately. It is believed that the Soetendalsvlei lagoon is named after the wreck.
1788: Maria, this wooden-hulled Dutch flute was found by the Meermin with 21 of its 40 strong crew having died and only 5 men being able to walk because of a scurvy outbreak on board. With the assistance of the Meermin’s crew, it was brought to Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape and anchored there, but a south-easterly gale sprung up and it was driven ashore to become a wreck on this day.
1843: Commandant, this wooden-hulled vessel was lost in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Very little is known about it.
1853: Jessie Smith, this wooden-hulled brig wrecked after its cables parted in Alexander Bay at the Orange River mouth in the Northern Cape. Four men died during the wrecking.
1877: A south easterly gale in the Eastern Cape resulted in the collision of four vessels and the wrecking of two. The Universe and the Hydra struck one another in Port Elizabeth but there is no record of either wrecking.
• Alma, a sailing schooner wrecked in Port Elizabeth.
• Countess of Dudley, a wooden-hulled brig collided with the Synriote after its cables parted and it was wrecked on Orient Beach in East London, about 400 m from the lighthouse, whilst the Synriote’s cables held fast.
1878: Southport, this wooden-hulled barque wrecked during an east-north-easterly gale on Back Beach in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.
1884: Caprera, this sailing barque wrecked in south-easterly gale after its cables parted in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.
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