SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage
May 5
“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”
1853: Barbara Gordon, this British wooden sailing barque wrecked at midnight after striking a reef near the Ratel River mouth in the Western Cape. Five passengers and one of the crew drowned when a life raft capsized.
1880: Brilliant, this German brigantine (possibly a schooner) wrecked in a south-easterly gale on North End Beach in Port Elizabeth in Algoa Bay the Eastern Cape.
1897: Cambusnethan, this British steel sailing barque was towed out of Algoa Bay on the 4th. In the early hours of the 5th, with a thick fog, the ship lost its way and struck the rocks at Woody Cape in the Eastern Cape. All except the captain abandoned ship. After three days, when it became clear the ship would be a total loss, he finally left.
1916: St Ebba, this British steam-powered whaler was driven ashore near Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape and wrecked with the loss of one life.
St Ebba (1916) shortly after wrecking
1975: Amsterdam, this motor-powered fishing vessel wrecked in the Gourits River in the Western Cape.
1983: Seal, this South African fishing vessel lost its anchor and foundered near Dana Bay in Mossel Bay in the Western Cape.
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