SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
November 16:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1906: Star of Peace, this steel steam-powered fishing trawler wrecked in dark and hazy weather at Jessie se Baai, near Quoin Point in the Western Cape. It struck a submerged rock and immediately foundered, with the crew safely getting to Gansbaai in the lifeboat.
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| The Meisho Maru No. 38 (1982) taking a battering from the sea in 1984, two years after it had wrecked |
1982: Meisho Maru No. 38, this motor-powered fishing trawler wrecked about 1km north-west of the Southern Tip of Africa, at L’Agulhas/Cape Agulhas in the Western Cape.
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| The bow section is all that remains visible above the water of the Meisho Maru No. 38 (1982) today |
It is still visible from the shore today, although it is breaking up rapidly. It has been the subject of many photographers since its wrecking.
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