Tuesday 23 April 2024

South Africa: Everton, Hektor, Capetiques & Dahlia shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Shipwreck in Luderitz, Namibia

March 23:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1864: Everton, this vessel ran aground after its tow rope broken and then it refloated, was blown out to sea, never to be seen again, off Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.

1913: Hektor, this steel steam-powered ship struck a rock in thick fog and wrecked at Dyer Island in the Western Cape.

1992: Capetiques, this yacht wrecked in a south easterly gale at the Lower North Battery in Simon’s Town in False Bay in the Western Cape.

1998: Dahlia, this South African fishing vessel foundered off Cape Point in the Western Cape.

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