SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
See also: Namibian shipwrecks
March 14:
“This day in South African shipwreck History”
1838: St Clair, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale off Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape with the loss of several lives (the exact number being unknown).
1843: Conservative, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked north of Yzerfontein, possibly near Vondeling Island in the Western Cape. Its wrecking was under mysterious circumstances as there was no indication of how it wrecked, with six bodies later being washed ashore that confirmed suspicions that it had wrecked.
1864: Sappho, this wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south easterly gale at Blaauwbergstrand in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1866: Portsmouth, this sailing brig wrecked after its cables parted in a north westerly gale just east of the Coega River Mouth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. The cook drowned whilst trying to swim to shore.
1982: Cape Point, this steel-hulled motor-powered fishing trawler wrecked after running onto rocks south of the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape.
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