South Africa: Belleisle & Alice shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

July 15: 

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1849: Belleisle/Belle Isle, this wooden-hulled schooner wrecked in a south-easterly gale on rocks in St. Sebastian Bay, near the Breede River mouth in the Western Cape.

A modern day aerial view of the town of Witsand with the Breede River mouth flowing into St. Sebastian Bay

1901: Alice, this vessel wrecked near Woodstock Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Very little is known about it.

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South Africa: Albert Juhl & Eclair shipwrecks

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Kolmanskop shipwreck in Namibia

February 4:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1876: Albert Juhl, this 3-masted schooner wrecked on Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape. 

1938: Eclair, this South African steam-powered fishing vessel (ex whaler) wrecked in dense fog on Kanon Point, just east of the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape. Of the 21 members of the crew, one was washed overboard and drowned, whilst the rest made it safely to shore.

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