SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
March 20:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1859: Oste, this sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale near Blaauwberg Beach in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1860: Oaklands, this wooden sailing barque wrecked near the Coega River Mouth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1898: Clan Lindsay, this British steel steam-powered cargo ship was en-route from Clyde in Scotland to Mauritius with a general cargo when it was wrecked on the eponymous Clan Lindsay Rocks in Mazeppa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
The Clan Lindsay (1898) after having wrecked, with cargo salvage operations underway
1934: Nautilus, this steel steam-powered dredger was scuttled off the Durban coast in KwaZulu-Natal.
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