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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