South Africa: Musquash, Odd, Boy Donald & Oceana Sapphire shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Natal Coast ran aground in Namibia

March 22:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1855: Musquash, this wooden sailing ketch wrecked on Coney Glen Rocks at the Knysna Heads in the Western Cape.

1949: Odd, this motor-powered whaler capsized and foundered between North Pier and Vetch’s Pier in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.

1983: Boy Donald, this motor-powered fishing vessel foundered off Lamberts Bay off the west coast in the Western Cape with the loss of four lives. 

2002: Oceana Sapphire, this South African fishing vessel foundered off Doringbaai off the west coast in the Western Cape.

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South Africa: Onward, Elizabeth A Oliver, Cerne, Lyngenfjord & Girl Devon shipwrecks

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January 14:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1858: Onward, this sailing schooner wrecked near the Soetfontein Nature Reserve in the Western Cape.

1873: Elizabeth A Oliver, this fully rigged iron-framed wooden sailing barque was beached and became a wreck at Die Plaat at the Cape Nature Walker Bay Nature Reserve in the Western Cape. Locals affectionately know the wreck as the “Tee-Skip”.

1909: Cerne, this steel steam-powered bucket dredger foundered off Dassen Island off the west coast in the Western Cape. After encountering a heavy sea and springing a leak in its port side, the ship was abandoned and presumed to have foundered. Half of the crew were picked up by the German steamship, Schlesien, and the other half made it into the Cerne’s boats. 

1938: Lyngenfjord, this Norwegian 4-masted steel steam-powered freighter wrecked in fog and because of a strong inset current near the Tsitsikamma River Mouth in the Eastern Cape.

Lyngenfjord after it wrecked

1971: Girl Devon, this sailing cutter foundered off Doringbaai off the west coast in the Western Cape with the loss of all 19 that were on board.

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