SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
April 25:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1873: Hotbank, this British wooden snow sprang a leak after striking an object and was subsequently run ashore, where it wrecked, at Cape Recife in Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.
1888: Fairholme, this iron British sailing vessel was abandoned after catching fire off Cape Agulhas. The crew had been taken off by the German barque Olga and it eventually sank approximately 1.5 km west of Knysna Heads in the Western Cape. The wreck site can be dived and is around 10m in depth but requires a very calm ocean due to the strong currents.
1943: Doryssa, this British motor-powered petroleum tanker was sunk by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci about 450 km South-south-west of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. A total of 53 people died during the event and 9 were rescued by the whaler Southern Breeze and landed in Cape Town. This would be the final vessel claimed by the Leonardo da Vinci. It was sunk by the HMS Active and HMS Ness with a depth charge, almost 500 km out at sea, on the 23rd May on its way to Bordeaux.
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| Doryssa (1943), anchored in Table Bay, date unknown |
1989: Rooijantjies Fontein, this South African fishing vessel capsized and sank off Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape with the loss of one life.
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