South Africa: Speedy & P X de Wet shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Kolmanskop shipwreck near Swakopmund, Namibia

July 13:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1842: Speedy, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked after its cables parted in a north-westerly gale near Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape. The Arion and the Galatea also ran aground during the gale, but they were refloated. The remains of the Speedy now lie beneath reclaimed land.

1972: P X de Wet, this motor-powered vessel ran aground near the mouth of the Boesmans River at Franskraal in the Western Cape. Very little is known about this vessel, and it is possible that it was refloated.

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South Africa: Arion, Eliza, Catherine Marie, Fidela & Hamlet shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

April 7:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

Otavi shipwreck in Namibia

1854: Arion, this sailing brig wrecked on the east bank of the Breede River mouth in the Western Cape after its cables parted. 

1863: Eliza, this sailing brig wrecked at Mouille Point in Table Bay in the Western Cape. 

1873: Catherine Marie, this vessel struck Molteno Reef and subsequently wrecked at the west pier of the harbour at the Kowie River Mouth in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.

1873: Fidela, this iron steam and sail powered transport/mail vessel wrecked in fog approx. 1 mile north of the Cape Recife Lighthouse in the Eastern Cape. Practice concrete bombs were dropped on the site during WWII and are still visible. 

1927: Hamlet, this iron steam-powered coaster wrecked near the South Head lighthouse in Saldanha Bay off the west coast in the Western Cape in thick fog.

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