SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
February 23:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1920: Pioneer (a Handley Page O/7 registration no. G-EANV), this military transport aircraft crash-landed at Acacia Siding, just outside of Beaufort West in the Western Cape after its rudder came out of its bearing and the captain was forced to crash-land it.
One of the other 12 Handley Page O/7’s that was in South Africa, which was never officially registered here, but was later registered as G-IAAA when it was sent to Calcutta, India
The captain and all eight passengers survived. This is currently the earliest recorded aeronautical wreck in South Africa.
Tristania 1
1978: Tristania 1, this South African fishing vessel (equipped as a fish factory vessel) was scuttled west of Robben Island in the Western Cape.
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