Saturday, 6 January 2024

South Africa: Kingston & Nicoline shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Eduard Bohlen shipwreck in Namibia

December 23:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1852: Kingston, this American sailing barque wrecked on the southwestern point of Robben Island in Table Bay in the Western Cape. Five lives were lost because of the wrecking. 

1875: Nicoline, this German three-masted sailing schooner wrecked in a south-easterly gale near Jetty Street in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.

1979: A Privately operated Beechcraft B100 King Air (registration no. ZS-MSG) flew into a thunderstorm near the town of Vrede in the Free State and the aircraft broke up in flight with the main fuselage landing in the garden of a house and the tail section on a hockey field. The pilot and one passenger lost their lives.

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