SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Ulan shipwreck in Walvis Bay, Namibia
February 22:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1840: Venerable, this wooden brig wrecked near Struisbaai in the Western Cape at night.
1844: Henrequetta, this schooner (outfitted for slaving) was taken as a prize by the HMS Thunderbolt and was subsequently condemned and broken up in Table Bay in the Western Cape. It arrived in Table Bay on the 2nd of February, with 30 enslaved people having lost their lives at sea. The vessel was sold on this day and broken up.
1863: Rover, this sailing vessel, wrecked in thick fog at Blaauwbergstrand in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1879: Eagle Wing, this wooden a schooner wrecked in gale on Quoin Point in the Western Cape with only three of its crew of seven surviving.
1998: Qu-Importe IV, this yacht foundered off Yzerfontein in the Western Cape after the captain was washed overboard.
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