SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Unknown shipwreck, Walvis Bay, Namibia
February 8:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1832: Adelaide, this barque wrecked in an easterly gale in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. An unknown number of people drowned but one record mentions that ‘several men drowned’.
1861: Miles Barton, this British troopship was carrying the 3rd Regiment under the command of Major King when it was wrecked on the eponymous Miles Barton reef between Skipskop and Arniston/Waenhuiskrans in the Western Cape. The troops were returning to the UK after the sacking of the Chinese Emperor's Summer Palace.
1886: Veronica, this British wooden sailing barque collided with the barque ‘Marquis of Worcester’ in a south-easterly gale and subsequently wrecked off Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape.
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