Namibia: West Coast shipwrecks: "Copenhagen" & "Daphne" | Кораблекрушения у западного побережья Намибии
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16.2. "Copenhagen (København)"
Date: 1928
The five masted Danish barque Kobenhavn (Copenhagen) used as a naval training vessel until its disappearance after December 22, 1928. The world's largest sailing ship, 3930 tons. Built at Leith in 1921 for the Danish East Asiatic Company by the firm of Ramage & Ferguson. The Kobenhavn was lost in 1928. Missing with all hands when bound from Buenos Aires to Australia.
Rumours, theories and searches for the lost barque have continued ever since. In 2012 divers found a wreck on Tristan da Cunha that some believe might be the missing ship. The Danish government and the Danish East Asiatic Company were reportedly taking the suggestion seriously enough to establish the truth of this possibility. But nothing has since been reported.
The only trace of the Copenhagen disappearance were 7 skeletons, dressed in torn sea jackets, found in 1935 in the Namib Desert in the Skeleton Coast (Atlantic coast of Namibia). Anthropologists confirmed that remains belonged to Europeans judging by the skulls structure. Patterns on the copper buttons of the pea jackets which skeletons were dressed in belonged to the uniform of the Danish merchant fleet cadets as experts established.
Local tribesmen were questioned and according to them a several years earlier they found a broken boat on shore. It means that at least one boat from the Kobenhavn reached the shore, but sailors died of hunger and thirst on the deserted African coast. The owners of the East Asian company no longer had any doubts, because until 1935 only one training vessel of Denmark - the Copenhagen - was lost.
17. "Daphne"
Date: 23.11.1845
Ichaboe Island
The ship sank off Ichaboe Island, Portuguese West Africa. She was on a voyage from Ichaboe Island to Blyth, Northumberland. "Ship News". The Times (18833). London. 29 January 1845. col F.
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