South Africa: Tordenskjold & Harvest Pegasus shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Shipwreck in Namibia

January 25:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1894: Tordenskjold, this Norwegian barque set sail from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, for Rangoon, Burma with 43 men on board, and was never heard from again, presuming to have foundered shortly after leaving port. 

1989: Harvest Pegasus, this motor-powered fishing vessel was scuttled by torpedo from the S.A.S. Emily Hobhouse, south-west of Cape Point off the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape.

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