SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
January 5:
Unknown, Walvis Bay, Nambia
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1780: Mentor, this Dutch East Indiaman foundered somewhere off the southern Cape coast in the Western Cape. Only two of the crew survived, having been found four days later, clinging to a piece of the poop deck by the French merchant ship, Le Saloman.
1948: SAA Lockheed 18 Lodestar (registration no. ZS-ASW), this passenger transport aircraft crashed after striking a drainage ditch after running off the runway at Palmietfontein, in Johannesburg in Gauteng. It was damaged beyond repair with the 11 passengers and crew of four making it out alive.
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