South Africa: Musquash, Odd, Boy Donald & Oceana Sapphire shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

Natal Coast ran aground in Namibia

March 22:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1855: Musquash, this wooden sailing ketch wrecked on Coney Glen Rocks at the Knysna Heads in the Western Cape.

1949: Odd, this motor-powered whaler capsized and foundered between North Pier and Vetch’s Pier in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal.

1983: Boy Donald, this motor-powered fishing vessel foundered off Lamberts Bay off the west coast in the Western Cape with the loss of four lives. 

2002: Oceana Sapphire, this South African fishing vessel foundered off Doringbaai off the west coast in the Western Cape.

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