SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Maridal shipwreck in Namibia
July 14:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1836: Dorothys, this wooden-hulled brig wrecked near Central Beach in Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape due to heavy swell driving it ashore.
1862: Perekop, this sailing barque wrecked on a reef off Struisbaai in the Western Cape.
1960: Mossel, this fishing vessel was scuttled near the South Jetty in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. As its remains posed a danger at the jetty, it was raised by the SAS Somerset and then scuttled in deeper waters on the 19th of February 1961.
1982: On this day a mid-air collision occurred between a SAAF Swearingen Merlin IV (registration no. ZS-JLZ) and a Bon Air Piper Navajo Chieftain (registration no. ZS-KTX) that resulted in both aircrafts tumbling to the ground and being destroyed, near the Zwartkops raceway, in Pretoria in Gauteng. All eight people on board ZS-JLZ and all five people on board ZS-KTX lost their lives.
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