SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
December 3:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1825: John, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked at the mouth of the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape. Very little is known about it.
1844: Flamingo, this American wooden sailing vessel wrecked at Struisbaai/Struis Bay in the Western Cape. It is possible that it was just grounded and refloated.
1856: Zaltbommel, this Dutch wooden sailing barque wrecked between Mouille Point and Chavonnes Battery in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1858: Madagascar, this steam-powered coaster wrecked at the Bira River mouth in the Eastern Cape after striking the eponymous Madagascar reef and being run aground to prevent the coaster from foundering.
1886: Ispahan, this fully-rigged iron sailing vessel wrecked at Holbaai Point near Cape Hangklip in the Western Cape.
The 28 lives that were on board were presumed lost until they miraculously popped up at Fish Hoek, having rowed across False Bay in the lifeboat.
1895: Carmen, this steel sailing barque left Durban in KwaZulu-Natal on this day for Calcutta in India and was never heard from again.
1899: Ismore, this four masted steam-powered troop ship wrecked opposite near where today the Cape Columbine lighthouse is, in the eponymous “Soldiers Bay” on the West Coast in the Western Cape.
Loading of the SS Ismore (1899) (from the memoirs of one of the survivors, AJ Montgomery, supplied by his grandson, AD Montgomery)
All the troops and crew managed to reach the shore, but only about 20 horses survived.
The horses embarking on board the SS Ismore (1899), of which only about 20 of the 334 that were on board survived (from the memoirs of one of the survivors, AJ Montgomery, supplied by his grandson, AD Montgomery)
The bay was named Soldiers Bay because of all the soldiers that were in the water after the wrecking.
The wreck now lies at about 10-15m around the blinder which it struck. It is rare to get good visibility on this dive though.
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