SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
February 10:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1892: Lieutenant Maury, this wooden barque caught fire while at anchor in Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape and eventually foundered. It caught alight at 01:00 and sank by 15:00. The cause of the blaze was not established. Only one lifeboat and two charred and burned sail booms were saved.
1943: Queen Anne, this British motor-powered steel cargo ship was en route to Beirut carrying a cargo of government stores, including explosives, when it was sunk by U-509, about 24 km south-southwest of Cape Agulhas/L'Agulhas in the Western Cape.
The Queen Anne (1943) date and location unknown
A single torpedo sunk the ship with the loss of the master and four crew members. The remaining survivors were split into two groups, with the one group of 17 survivors being picked up by the HMS St. Zeno and landed at Cape Town, and the other group of 22 making landfall somewhere along the coastline near Bredasdorp in a lifeboat.
1961: SAAF Douglas C-47B (registration no. 6856), this military transport aircraft crashed near Bizana in the Eastern Cape with the loss of its crew of five.
SAAF 685 (GZCL), taken around the end of WWII, location unknown
2017: Glen Mist, this South African fishing vessel foundered at the Saldanha Bay wharf in the Western Cape, presumably due to many years of neglect.
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