SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Winston shipwreck in Namibia
February 20:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1673: Grundel, this Dutch East India Company Hoeker wrecked near Cape Hangklip between Betty’s Bay and Pringle Bay in the Western Cape. An attempt was made on its return from Batavia to stop and to take on water in Madagascar, but the French had taken occupation of the island and drove off the Dutch with gunfire. They made a dash for the Cape with the captain being wounded by the French. They managed to come close, wrecking on the other side of False Bay, near Cape Hangklip. The captain and two others rowed the ship’s boat across False Bay to find assistance on its western shore. One of these men died of exhaustion, but the captain and the other crew member survived and beached the boat. A party was sent to rescue those left behind - some of whom had started walking along the eastern coastline of False Bay. They were found by the Goudvinck, which rescued the remainder of the survivors. The Grundel is believed to have operated as a packet at the Cape a few years earlier with it having surveyed the southern coastline of South Africa in 1669 and 1670.
1863: Deutan, this Spanish vessel was put into Table Bay in the Western Cape for water but was instead condemned and broken up. Very little is known about it.
1882: Johan, this Swedish sailing barque wrecked near Orient Beach in East London in the Eastern Cape after its cables parted in a south-easterly gale.
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