SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
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March 27:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1845: Horwood, this British wooden sailing brig wrecked in a south-easterly gale in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1878: Ivy, this wooden sailing barque wrecked north of the Mtamvuna River Mouth at Port Edward in KwaZulu-Natal in the early hours of the morning. The mate swam ashore with a line, and everyone made it safely off except for one crewman who was washed overboard. Reports claim that the Ivy was wedged high and dry on a tongue of rocks about 55m from the beach.
1913: Camphill, this steel steam-powered ship wrecked in thick mist just west of the Agulhas Lighthouse in the Western Cape. Three men died when the main steam pipe burst.
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