SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
December 15:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1880: John N Gamewell, this 3-masted sailing schooner caught alight and burned down to the waterline and then drifted ashore at Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1972: Rockeater, this motor-powered mineral-sampling dredger was scuttled by the South African Navy to form an artifice reef, in Smitswinkel Bay on the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.
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| The Rockeater (1972), date and location unknown |
It was the first of five wrecks to be scuttled in Smitswinkel Bay for this purpose.
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| A map of the Smitswinkel Bay wreck route |
The wreck can be dived with the deepest section being about 36m on the sand.
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