SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
April 7:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
Otavi shipwreck in Namibia
1854: Arion, this sailing brig wrecked on the east bank of the Breede River mouth in the Western Cape after its cables parted.
1863: Eliza, this sailing brig wrecked at Mouille Point in Table Bay in the Western Cape.
1873: Catherine Marie, this vessel struck Molteno Reef and subsequently wrecked at the west pier of the harbour at the Kowie River Mouth in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.
1873: Fidela, this iron steam and sail powered transport/mail vessel wrecked in fog approx. 1 mile north of the Cape Recife Lighthouse in the Eastern Cape. Practice concrete bombs were dropped on the site during WWII and are still visible.
1927: Hamlet, this iron steam-powered coaster wrecked near the South Head lighthouse in Saldanha Bay off the west coast in the Western Cape in thick fog.
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