SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
January 13:
Shipwreck in Namibia
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1830: Frances Watson, this wooden sailing brig wrecked in a south-easterly gale at Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1850: Rowvonia, this wooden sailing barque which was operating as a slaver, wrecked in a south-easterly gale, after it had been detained by the HMS Pantaloon, in Simon's Bay in False Bay in the Western Cape.
1871: Simon, this wooden sailing brig wrecked in a south-easterly gale on North End Beach at Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1879: Active, this vessel wrecked on Tenedos Reef at the Tugela River mouth near Port Dunford in KwaZulu-Natal.
1887: Forest Grove, this wooden sailing barque struck Dodington Rock and was intentionally beached, where it became a wreck, on Bird Island in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1919: E.A.O., this steel steam-powered whaler foundered about 50 km offshore from Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape whilst engaged in whaling. One source has the date of loss listed as the 13th of October instead.
2006: La Bamba, this luxury yacht started taking on water and sank, off Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape.
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