Saturday, 2 March 2024

South Africa: Albert Juhl & Eclair shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Kolmanskop shipwreck in Namibia

February 4:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1876: Albert Juhl, this 3-masted schooner wrecked on Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape. 

1938: Eclair, this South African steam-powered fishing vessel (ex whaler) wrecked in dense fog on Kanon Point, just east of the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape. Of the 21 members of the crew, one was washed overboard and drowned, whilst the rest made it safely to shore.

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