SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Henrietta Spasheti wreck in Namibia
March 15:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1847: Montgomery, this American sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale on a reef off Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape.
1859: Eliza (in some databases the Faramound), this vessel is believed to have wrecked near the Great Brak River in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape with fragments of a vessel washing up there. Very little is known about it.
1972: Breerivier, this South African motor-powered fishing vessel wrecked at Cape St Martin on the Vredenburg Peninsula off the west coast in the Western Cape.
1990: Rigil K, this sailing yacht wrecked at Bokpunt, just north of Cape Town, off the west coast in the Western Cape after drifting in heavy weather for almost 30 km.
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