SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Karimona shipwreck in Namibia
April 28:
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1872: Susan Pardew, this wooden British barque wrecked in Mossel Bay between the Great Brak River and the town of Mossel Bay in the Western Cape.
1881: Hampton Court, this vessel started leaking at sea west of East London but arrived at Cape Town in the Western Cape on the 27th where it was condemned the next day (on this day).
1938: Jimmy le Roux, this motor-powered fishing vessel wrecked on Dyer Island in the Western Cape.
1940: Kilfenora, this South African tanker was lost after its mooring lines broke during a south-easterly gale. It ran aground on Schaapen Island in Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape and became a wreck. In 1974 it was removed as it was a shipping hazard.
1984: Spiffero, this yacht was the last vessel to be claimed by the strong winds and rough seas of the Vasco da Gama race to East London. In the early hours of the morning of the 27th it rolled and was extensively damaged, with almost the entire top deck being destroyed. A May Day radio signal was sent via a jerry-rigged radio and was heard by a nearby vessel, the Libreville. It was found just before nightfall on the 28th by a ‘Kuswag’ vessel. Although it was being towed back, the Spiffero sank because of the damage it had sustained. The ‘Kuswag’ vessel that had left to fetch it had to be towed into East London by another ‘Kuswag’ vessel because of sustaining damage whilst bumping into the Spiffero whilst towing it in the rough seas.
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