SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Suiderkus shipwreck in Namibia in 1978
February 15:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1834: L’Aigle, this wooden French whaler ran aground at Slangkop Beach near Kommetjie on the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape and wrecked. Three lives were lost because of the wrecking. There is speculation that some packed stones on the hills just south of the lighthouse is actually an unmarked grave of one of those lost and that the campsite name of ‘De Anker’ at the Soetwater Resort comes from this vessel’s anchor that lies near the tidal pool.
1881: Johanna, this schooner lost its cables in a south-easterly gale and drifted onto the notorious bight of North End beach in Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape and wrecked. All made it off safely, but the vessel went to pieces soon after in the heavy swell.
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