South Africa: Pembrooke Castle shipwreck

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Fukuseki Maru wreck off Namibia's west coast

December 26:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1890: Pembrooke Castle, this British iron barquentine wrecked in thick fog somewhere along the west coast in the Northern Cape on its way to Port Nolloth. Very little is known about it.

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South Africa: Kingston & Nicoline shipwrecks

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Eduard Bohlen shipwreck in Namibia

December 23:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1852: Kingston, this American sailing barque wrecked on the southwestern point of Robben Island in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Five lives were lost because of the wrecking. 

1875: Nicoline, this German three-masted sailing schooner wrecked in a south-easterly gale near Jetty Street in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.

1979: A Privately operated Beechcraft B100 King Air (registration no. ZS-MSG) flew into a thunderstorm near the town of Vrede in the Free State and the aircraft broke up in flight with the main fuselage landing in the garden of a house and the tail section on a hockey field. The pilot and one passenger lost their lives.

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