SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Benguela Eagle shipwreck in Namibia
March 14:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1838: St Clair, this British wooden sailing vessel wrecked in a south easterly gale off Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape with the loss of several lives (the exact number being unknown).
1843: Conservative, this British wooden sailing vessel is presumed to have wrecked or foundered somewhere north of Yzerfontein, possibly near Vondeling Island in the Western Cape. Its wrecking was under mysterious circumstances as there was no indication of it having wrecked with the only evidence being six bodies that washed ashore.
1864: Sappho, this British wooden sailing barque wrecked in a south easterly gale at Blaauwbergstrand in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1866: Portsmouth, this American sailing brig wrecked after its cables parted in a north westerly gale just east of the Coega River Mouth in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape. The cook drowned whilst trying to swim to shore.
1982: Cape Point, this South African steel-hulled motor-powered fishing trawler wrecked after running onto rocks south of the Gourits River mouth in the Western Cape.
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