SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Luderitz harbour, Namibia: Magna shipwreck
December 29:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1841: Sovereign, this wooden sailing schooner wrecked at the Knysna Heads in the Western Cape after leaving the Knysna harbour.
1893: Emin, this German steam-powered ship left Durban in KwaZulu-Natal for Delagoa Bay with a cargo of coal on this day and was never heard from again. All 31 people that were on board were presumed to have perished. Some scattered wreckage washed up along the coast that is believed to have come from the Emin.
1916: O’Bell, this cargo steam-powered ship wrecked in the Mbhashe/Bashee River in the Eastern Cape.
1921: Clansman, this wooden fishing cutter wrecked on the southeast point of Dassen Island on the West Coast in the Western Cape.
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