South Africa: General Nott, Zambesi & Douglas H shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

December 10:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1876: General Nott, this British wooden sailing brig wrecked during a north-westerly gale at the mouth of the Blind River, on East Beach, in East London in the Eastern Cape.

1882: Zambesi, this wooden sailing schooner wrecked in a strong easterly wind on Back Beach in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal after being in the outer anchorage in quarantine.

1994: Douglas H, this wooden motor-powered South African fishing vessel started leaking in gale-force winds and foundered about 60 km west of Cape Town in the Western Cape.

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